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Rebecca and Rowena

(1850)
A novel by William Makepeace Thackeray

A satire on the Victorian admiration for all things medieval, this early work by the author of Vanity Fair is decidedly contrary—a self-confessed "middle-aged novel" that begins where most novels end: with marriage.

Rebecca and Rowena calls into question the ending of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, exploring the miserable marriage of Sir Wilfrid to the "icy, faultless, prim" Rowena. In an irreverent and theatrical plot, in which the dead come back to life, marriage is exposed as really quite dull, and imperialism is mocked mercilessly, Thackeray ridiculously reunites Ivanhoe with his first love.

Genre: Romance

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September 2010 : USA Hardback

Title: Rebecca And Rowena: A Romance Upon Romance
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 1-169-21425-8 / 978-1-169-21425-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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May 2010 : USA Hardback

Title: Rebecca And Rowena: A Romance Upon Romance
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 1-161-45021-1 / 978-1-161-45021-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Paperback Editions

April 2012 : USA Paperback

Title: Rebecca And Rowena: A Romance Upon Romance
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 1-248-89579-7 / 978-1-248-89579-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: Nabu Press
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September 2010 : USA Paperback

Title: Rebecca And Rowena: A Romance Upon Romance
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 1-162-68156-X / 978-1-162-68156-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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August 2008 : Canada Paperback

Title: Rebecca and Rowena
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 1-4270-4545-3 / 978-1-4270-4545-4 (Canada edition)
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
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August 2008 : Canada Paperback

Title: Rebecca and Rowena
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 1-4270-4565-8 / 978-1-4270-4565-2 (Canada edition)
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
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August 2008 : Canada Paperback

Title: Rebecca and Rowena A Romance upon Romance (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 1-4270-4819-3 / 978-1-4270-4819-6 (Canada edition)
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
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August 2008 : Canada Paperback

Title: Rebecca and Rowena: A Romance upon Romance: Easyread Edition
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 1-4270-4552-6 / 978-1-4270-4552-2 (Canada edition)
Publisher: Readhowyouwant
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August 2008 : Canada Paperback

Title: Rebecca and Rowena: A Romance upon Romance: Easyread Large Edition
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 1-4270-4707-3 / 978-1-4270-4707-6 (Canada edition)
Publisher: Readhowyouwant
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August 2008 : Canada Paperback

Title: Rebecca and Rowena: A Romance upon Romance: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 1-4270-4714-6 / 978-1-4270-4714-4 (Canada edition)
Publisher: Readhowyouwant
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August 2008 : Canada Paperback

Title: Rebecca and Rowena: A Romance upon Romance: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 1-4270-4894-0 / 978-1-4270-4894-3 (Canada edition)
Publisher: Readhowyouwant
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June 2004 : USA Paperback

Title: Rebecca And Rowena: A Romance Upon Romance
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 1-4191-4402-2 / 978-1-4191-4402-8 (USA edition)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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September 2002 : UK Paperback

Title: Rebecca and Rowena (Hesperus Classics)
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray, Matthew Sweet (foreword)
ISBN: 1-84391-018-7 / 978-1-84391-018-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
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