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Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
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Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
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Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
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Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
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Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
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Release : 1923
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ISBN : OCLC:9455040
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
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Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
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Excerpt from Sketches and Travels in London: To Which Are Added Novels by Eminent Hands and Character Sketches I r is with the greatest satisfaction my dear Robert, that I have you as a neighbour within a couple of miles of me and that I have seen you established comfortably in your chambers in fig-tree Court. The situation is not cheerful, it is true; and to clamber up three pairs of black creaking stairs, is an exercise not pleasant to a man who never cared for ascending mountains. Nor did the performance of the young barrister who lives under you and it appears plays pretty constantly upon the French horn give me any great pleasure, as I sate and partook of luncheon in your rooms. Your female attendant or laundress too struck me from her personal appearance to be a lady addicted to the use of ardent spirits; and the smell of tobacco which you say some old college friends of yours had partaken on the night previous was I must say, not pleasant in the chambers, and I even thought might he remarked as fingering in your own morning-coat. However I am an old fellow. The use of cigars has come in since my time (and, I must own, is adopted by many people of the first fashion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
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Release : 1911
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Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
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Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWP3JQ
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 388 pages
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Release : 2017-04-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0259195812
Excerpt from The Four Georges: Sketches and Travels in London William the Pious had fifteen children, eight daughters and seven sons, who, as the property left among them was small, drew lots to determine which one of them should marry, and continue the stout race of the Guelphs. The lot fell on Duke George, the sixth brother. The others remained single, or contracted left-handed marriages after the princely fashion of those days. It is a queer picture - that of the old Prince dying in his little wood-built capital, and his seven sons tossing up which should inherit and transmit the crown of Brentford. Duke George, the lucky prizeman, made the tour of Europe, during which he visited the court of Queen Elizabeth; and in the year 1617, came back and settled at Zell, with a wife out of Darmstadt. His remaining brothers all kept their house at Zell, for economy's sake. And presently, in due course, they all died all the honest Dukes; Ernest, and Christian, and Augustus, and Magnus, and George, and J ohn and they are buried in the brick church of Brentford yonder, by the sandy banks of the Aller. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
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Release : 1893
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : WISC:89073672024
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
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Release : 1869
Category : Snobs and snobbishness
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010444115
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
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Release : 1891
Category : English literature
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013561679
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
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Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435083495473
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 228 pages
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Release : 2017-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546662529
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He is known for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. BIOGRAPHY: Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, British India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 - 13 September 1815), was secretary to the Board of Revenue in the British East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792-1864), was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company. Richmond died in 1815, which caused Anne to send her son to England in 1816, while she remained in British India. The ship on which he travelled made a short stopover at St. Helena, where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him. Once in England he was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick, and then at Charterhouse School, where he became a close friend of John Leech. Thackeray disliked Charterhouse, and parodied it in his fiction as "Slaughterhouse." Nevertheless, Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death. Illness in his last year there, during which he reportedly grew to his full height of six foot three, postponed his matriculation at Trinity College, Cambridge, until February 1829.[citation needed]Never too keen on academic studies, Thackeray left Cambridge in 1830, but some of his earliest published writing appeared in two university periodicals, The Snob and The Gownsman. Thackeray then travelled for some time on the continent, visiting Paris and Weimar, where he met Goethe. He returned to England and began to study law at the Middle Temple, but soon gave that up. On reaching the age of 21 he came into his inheritance from his father, but he squandered much of it on gambling and on funding two unsuccessful newspapers, The National Standard and The Constitutional, for which he had hoped to write. He also lost a good part of his fortune in the collapse of two Indian banks. Forced to consider a profession to support himself, he turned first to art, which he studied in Paris, but did not pursue it, except in later years as the illustrator of some of his own novels and other writings. Thackeray's years of semi-idleness ended after he married, on 20 August 1836, Isabella Gethin Shawe (1816-1893), second daughter of Isabella Creagh Shawe and Matthew Shawe, a colonel who had died after distinguished service, primarily in India. The Thackerays had three children, all girls: Anne Isabella (1837-1919), Jane (who died at eight months old) and Harriet Marian (1840-1875), who married Sir Leslie Stephen, editor, biographer and philosopher. Thackeray now began "writing for his life," as he put it, turning to journalism in an effort to support his young family. He primarily worked for Fraser's Magazine, a sharp-witted and sharp-tongued conservative publication for which he produced art criticism, short fictional sketches, and two longer fictional works, Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Between 1837 and 1840 he also reviewed books for The Times. He was also a regular contributor to The Morning Chronicle and The Foreign Quarterly Review. Later, through his connection to the illustrator John Leech, he began writing for the newly created magazine Punch, in which he published The Snob Papers, later collected as The Book of Snobs. This work popularised the modern meaning of the word "snob."Thackeray was a regular contributor to Punch between 1843 and 1854..........
