William Thackeray: 301 books

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was an English novelist, mostly known for his satirical works which were full of irony concerning the English society of those times. His most famous work is a novel entitled 'Vanity Fair', first published in 1847. This novel is a bright example of Thackeray's...

La Foire aux vanités (Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero) est un roman de William Makepeace Thackeray paru pour la première fois sous forme de feuilleton dans le magazine mensuel Punch entre 1846 et 1847 (vingt numéros). Son auteur y dépeint la société anglaise de la première...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.  *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.  Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel...

Though he is best remembered as the satirical novelist who penned nineteenth-century masterpieces such as Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray was also an accomplished poet. This volume collects some of Thackeray's most popular ballads, lyrics, and other poems; it is a rewarding read for lovers of traditional verse.

Warum eigentlich müssen Romane immer an jenem Punkt, wenn Held und Heldin einander geheiratet haben, „höchst unbefriedigend schließen und regelrecht verfrüht bereits auf Seite 320 des dritten Bandes enden“? Warum zum Beispiel musste Sir Walter Scotts großartiges Werk damit enden, dass Ivanhoe...

The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 3 contains the following 10 Masterpieces : Candide - Voltaire David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Emma - Jane Austen Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James The Scarlet...

This satiric classic begins: "The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:-- I am the individual destined to write that work--My vocation is announced in terms of great eloquence--I show that the world has been gradually preparing itself for...

Classic short story, first published in 1854. According to Wikipedia: "Thackeray is most often compared to one other great novelist of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens. During the Victorian era, he was ranked second only to Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively...

On a broad and colourful canvas, extending from urban and rural England to Waterloo and the continental haunts of exiles, Thackeray gives us one of the greatest social-satirical novels in the language-one of the most entertaining and profound, and, in the person of Becky Sharp, we have one of literature's...

Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Thackeray is most often compared to one other great novelist of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens. During the Victorian era, he was ranked second only to Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair. In that novel he...

Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Thackeray is most often compared to one other great novelist of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens. During the Victorian era, he was ranked second only to Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair. In that novel...

Thackeray schildert in seinem erstmals 1852 erschienenen historischen Roman vor dem Hintergrund der Englischen Restauration den frühen Lebensweg Henry Esmonds, einer Waise, die unter geflohenen französischen Hugenotten nahe London aufgewachsen ist. Im zarten Alter von zehn Jahren wird das Kind von...

The classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Thackeray is most often compared to one other great novelist of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens. During the Victorian era, he was ranked second only to Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair. In that novel...

Classic short story, first published under the pen name "Titmarsh". Classic short story, first published in 1854. According to Wikipedia: "Thackeray is most often compared to one other great novelist of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens. During the Victorian era, he was ranked second only to Dickens,...