Though he originally set out to depict criminals in as harshly accurate a light as possible, without the sentimentalization that he saw and disdained in Dickens' work, Thackeray's fictionalized account of the life of Catherine Hayes, an eighteenth-century woman who was burned at the stake for the murder of her husband, depicts the titular character in a somewhat more appealing and charming manner than the author intended. A must-read for fans of rollicking picaresque tales such as Moll Flanders.
| ISBN: | 9781775419884 |
| Publication date: | 1st November 2010 |
| Author: | Thackeray, William Makepeace |
| Publisher: | The Floating Press |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |