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William Makepeace Thackeray (/ ˈ θ æ k ər i / THAK-ər-ee; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator.He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick.
Thackeray himself gave a review of this publication in the Morning Chronicle of 6 May 1844, reprinted in Thackeray's Contributions to the Morning Chronicle, Gordon N. Ray, Urbana, Illinois, 1995, p. 31-39, while Barry Lyndon was being written. Moreover, in chapter XIII, p. 193, Thackeray places an allusion in the form of a wink under the pen of ...
The Newcomes was published serially over about two years, as Thackeray himself says in one of the novel's final chapters. The novel shows its serial origin: it is very long (an undated but clearly very old edition with tiny type fills 551 pages) and its events occur over many years and in several countries before the reader reaches the predictable conclusion.
Pages in category "Novels by William Makepeace Thackeray" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The novel tells the story of Henry Esmond's twin grandsons, Virginia-born George and Henry Warrington.At the beginning of the novel, the older twin, George, was missing in action and presumed dead, having participated in General Edward Braddock's disastrous expedition against Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) as part of the Seven Years' War.
Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy (1848–50) is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray. [1] It is set in 19th-century England, particularly in London.
Anthony Trollope thought Thackeray the greatest novelist of his time [3] and Esmond his masterpiece. [ 4 ] Ippolito Nievo 's novel Confessions of an Italian shows similarities with The History of Henry Esmond , in the fundamental structure of the plot, in the psychological outlines of the main characters, in frequent episodes, and in the use of ...