A Shabby Genteel Story (E-bok)

Thackeray's A Shabby Genteel Story (1840) concerns the lower-middle class Gann family, who desire to mingle with their betters. Misfortunes come their way. Caroline Gann, living in a boarding house with no money, is despised and humiliated by everyone. The aristocratic Brandon comes to the boarding house, is allured by Caroline, and seduces her setting off a series of miseries through which Thackeray conveys his views of the pathos of human nature.