The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond

In "The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond," William Makepeace Thackeray crafts a satirical narrative steeped in the tradition of Victorian social observation. The novel, told through a whimsical first-person perspective, chronicles the life of the hapless Samuel Titmarsh, an aspiring artist whose encounter with the titular diamond unfolds a web of ambition, class struggle, ...