The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan

by

William Makepeace Thackeray

eBooks@Adelaide
2006

First published as Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan in The New Monthly Magazine, Feb., 1838; continued as Historical Recollections by Major Gahagan, March, 1838, and as Major Gahagan’s Historical Reminiscences (3 nos.), Nov., 1838–Feb., 1839. Reprinted as Reminiscences of Major Gahagan in Comic Tales and Sketches, vol. II, 1841, and as The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan in Miscellanies, vol. I, 185.

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Table of Contents

  1. “Truth is Strange, Stranger than Fiction.”
  2. Allyghur and Laswaree.
  3. A Peep Into Spain — Account of the Origin and Services of The Ahmednuggar Irregulars.
  4. The Indian Camp — The Sortie from the Fort.
  5. The Issue of My Interview with My Wife.
  6. Famine in the Garrison.
  7. The Escape.
  8. The Captive.
  9. Surprise of Futtyghur.

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