Catherine: A Story

by William Makepeace Thackeray

First published 1840

Contents

1. Advertisement
2. Chapter I: Introducing to the Reader the Chief Personage of This Narrative
3. Chapter II: In Which Are Depicted the Pleasures of a Sentimental Attachment
4. Chapter III: In Which a Narcotic Is Administered, and a Great Deal of Genteel Society Depicted
5. Chapter IV: In Which Mrs. Catherine Becomes an Honest Woman Again
6. Chapter V: Contains Mr. Brock's Autobiography, and Other Matters
7. Chapter VI: Adventures of the Ambassador, Mr. Macshane
8. Chapter VII: Which Embraces a Period of Seven Years
9. Chapter VIII: Enumerates the Accomplishments of Master Thomas Billings—Introduces Brock as Doctor Wood—And Announces the Execution of Ensign Macshane
10. Chapter IX: Interview Between Count Galgenstein and Master Thomas Billings, When He Informs the Count of His Parentage
11. Chapter X: Showing How Galgenstein and Mrs. Cat Recognise Each Other in Marylebone Gardens—And How the Count Drives Her Home in His Carriage
12. Chapter XI: Of Some Domestic Quarrels, and the Consequence Thereof
13. Chapter XII: Treats of Love, and Prepares for Death
14. Chapter XIII: Being a Preparation for the End
15. Chapter the Last
16. Another Last Chapter