Enter the world of Samuel Titmarsh, a man who experiences both the heights of wealth and the depths of despair in William Makepeace Thackeray's Victorian masterpiece, 'The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond'. Follow Titmarsh's journey as he is given the Hoggarty Diamond by his wealthy aunt and rises to financial success, only to be brought crashing down by the collapse of the Independent West Diddlesex Fire and Insurance Company. The story is a hilarious and heartwarming exploration of the fickleness of fortune and the true nature of wealth, all told with Thackeray's signature wit and clarity.

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Excerpt from The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond My kind friends, the publishers of this little book, appear to have a very high opinion of the virtue of prefaces, and demand one for the present occasion in terms so urgent that it is impossible to refuse a compliance with their petition. The story appeared originally in "Fraser's Magazine," in the year 1841, and was written at a time when the writer himself was suffering under the severest personal grief and calamity. Those who are curious in such points of literary biography, may thus account for a certain sobriety and melancholy which pervades this little tale. 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.