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3) Thackeray
Author
Publisher
Published for the British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
On Vanity fair / Dorothy van Ghent -- Art and nature / Barbara Hardy -- The reader in the realistic novel / Wolfgang Iser -- Vision and satire / Robert E. Lougy -- The triumph of Clytemnestra -- The comedy of shifting perspectives.
Author
Series
Twayne's English authors ; 365
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
11) Thackeray
Author
Publisher
Folcroft Library Editions
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "Amid all the eulogies and all the slanders that are lavished upon the English character, very few people would appear to take any real trouble to obtain a sincere view of it. Rhetorical phrases about its inarticulate strength and nobility do not commonly bring us very much further, for it may be questioned whether it is good for a people excitedly to articulate their own inarticulate disposition. But, when all is said and done, it may truly...
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A rich and evocative portrait of one of the greatest authors of Victorian England Who was William Makepeace Thackeray? Was he the wealthy dilettante who came to London in the 1830s and squandered his fortune on newspapers? Was he the impoverished freelance author of the 1840s who scrapped for every penny he could get? Or was he the great writer who published Vanity Fair in 1847, skewering Victorian society and ensuring his literary legacy? Throughout...
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press
Pub. Date
1925.
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "All save one of the papers here collected were written as lectures and read from a desk at Cambridge; the exception being that upon Trollope, contributed to The Nation and the Athenaeum and pleasantly provoked by a recent edition of the "Barsetshire" novels. To these it almost wholly confines itself. But a full estimate of Trollope as one of our greatest English novelists-and perhaps the raciest of them all-is long overdue, awaiting a complete...
