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Thackeray originated the modern meaning of the word snob" in a series of essays for Punch magazine, the British humor periodical. Those essays are collected in this volume. With the organizational drive of a naturalist, Thackeray classifies the varied manifestations of snobbery in society many of which remain all too common today.
Table of Contents
- THE BOOK OF SNOBS
- PREFATORY REMARKS
- CHAPTER I—THE SNOB PLAYFULLY DEALT WITH
- CHAPTER II—THE SNOB ROYAL
- CHAPTER III—THE INFLUENCE OF THE ARISTOCRACY ON SNOBS
- CHAPTER IV—THE COURT CIRCULAR, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SNOBS
- CHAPTER V—WHAT SNOBS ADMIRE
- CHAPTER VI—ON SOME RESPECTABLE SNOBS
- CHAPTER VII—ON SOME RESPECTABLE SNOBS
- CHAPTER VIII—GREAT CITY SNOBS
- CHAPTER IX—ON SOME MILITARY SNOBS
- CHAPTER X—MILITARY SNOBS
- CHAPTER XI—ON CLERICAL SNOBS
- CHAPTER XII—ON CLERICAL SNOBS AND SNOBBISHNESS
- CHAPTER XIII—ON CLERICAL SNOBS
- CHAPTER XIV—ON UNIVERSITY SNOBS
- CHAPTER XV—ON UNIVERSITY SNOBS
- CHAPTER XVI—ON LITERARY SNOBS
- CHAPTER XVII—A LITTLE ABOUT IRISH SNOBS
- CHAPTER XVIII—PARTY-GIVING SNOBS
- CHAPTER XIX—DINING-OUT SNOBS
- CHAPTER XX—DINNER-GIVING SNOBS FURTHER CONSIDERED
- CHAPTER XXI—SOME CONTINENTAL SNOBS
- CHAPTER XXII—CONTINENTAL SNOBBERY CONTINUED
- CHAPTER XXIII—ENGLISH SNOBS ON THE CONTINENT
- CHAPTER XXIV—ON SOME COUNTRY SNOBS
- CHAPTER XXV—A VISIT TO SOME COUNTRY SNOBS
- CHAPTER XXVI—ON SOME COUNTRY SNOBS
- CHAPTER XXVII—A VISIT TO SOME COUNTRY SNOBS
- Notes.
- CHAPTER XXVIII—ON SOME COUNTRY SNOBS
- CHAPTER XXIX—A VISIT TO SOME COUNTRY SNOBS
- CHAPTER XXX—ON SOME COUNTRY SNOBS
- CHAPTER XXXI—A VISIT TO SOME COUNTRY SNOBS
- CHAPTER XXXII—SNOBBIUM GATHERUM
- CHAPTER XXXIII—SNOBS AND MARRIAGE
- CHAPTER XXXIV—SNOBS AND MARRIAGE
- CHAPTER XXXV—SNOBS AND MARRIAGE
- CHAPTER XXXVI—SNOBS AND MARRIAGE
- CHAPTER XXXVII—CLUB SNOBS
- CHAPTER XXXVIII—CLUB SNOBS
- CHAPTER XXXIX—CLUB SNOBS
- CHAPTER XL—CLUB SNOBS
- CHAPTER XLI—CLUB SNOBS
- CHAPTER XLII—CLUB SNOBS
- CHAPTER XLIII—CLUB SNOBS
- CHAPTER XLIV—CLUB SNOBS
- CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS ON SNOBS
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