Download or read book The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World, Vol. 1 of 2 written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-14 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World, Vol. 1 of 2: Showing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By As intimated in the note quoted above, Thackeray at first designed completing A Shabby Genteel Story in a formal fashion, but changed his mind and instead revived some of the characters as the Brandons and Mr. Gann in a new novel The Adventures of Philip, which he contributed to The Cornhill Magazine, beginning with the number for January, 1861, the third volume of the magazine, which Opened with the story, and continuing it until August, 1862. Immediately afterward he published it in three vol umes, without the illustrations, dedicating it to his friend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.