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Title

The adventures of Philip on his way through the world : showing who robbed him, who helped him, and who passed him by. To which is now prefixed A shabby genteel story.

Author

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

Publication

Boston : Fields, Osgood, 1869.

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Details

Description

iv, 442 p.; 19 cm.

Summary

Philip Firmin, son of Dr. Brand Firmin and of Lord Ringwood's wealthy niece, has been left a fortune at the death of his mother. He discovers that his father is being blackmailed by Tufton Hunt, a clergyman who once performed a sham marriage ceremony between Brandon and Caroline Gann (as related in A Shabby Genteel Story). Hunt now claims that the marriage was in fact valid, and urges Caroline to assert her rights and disinherit Philip by proving him illegitimate. Caroline, who is now working as a nurse and in this capacity has brought Philip through a serious illness, refuses to do this. Dr Firmin loses Philip's money and his own through unwise speculation and flees to America, and Philip's fiancée Agnes Twysden renounces him in favour of a wealthier rival. Philip now meets General Baynes, one of the trustees of his lost fortune, and falls in love with the General's daughter Charlotte. He marries her, in the teeth of her mother's opposition, and struggles to support her by becoming a journalist. His troubles are ended when the lost will of his great-uncle, Lord Ringwood, is discovered, and he is found to be the heir to the old man's riches.

Alternative Title

• Shabby genteel story.
• Shabby genteel story

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Indians of North America > Northwest Coast of North America
• Indians of North America > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

LCCN

a^^34001979^

OCLC

• 734246
• SCSB-13207163

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library