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Friday, February 24, 2006
William Thackeray - The Great Hoggarty Diamond

For freshness, indeed for a fine perception which enables the author among other feats that of keeping throughout the story the curious simplicity of its supposed narrator's character, The Great Hoggarty Diamond can scarcely be surpassed. The characters, from Lady Drum, Lady Fanny Rakes, Lady Jane and Edmund Preston, to Brough, Mrs and Miss Brough, Mrs Roundhand, Gus Hoskins , and, by no means least, Samuel Titmarsh's aunt, Mrs Hoggarty, with her store of " Rosolio," are full of life; the book is crammed with honest fun; and for pure pathos, the death of the child, and the meeting of the husband and wife over the empty cradle stands, if not alone in its own line, at least in the company of very few such scenes in English fiction. The Great Hoggarty Diamond, oddly enough, met with the fate that afterwards befell one of Lever's best stories which appeared in a periodical week by week—it had to be cut short at the bidding of the editor.

William Thackeray - The Great Hoggarty Diamond

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