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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 ...
William Makepeace Thackeray (Calcutá, 18 de julho de 1811 – Londres, 24 de dezembro de 1863), filho de Richmond Thackeray (1781–1815), secretário do Conselho de Receita da Companhia Britânica das Índias Orientais, e de Anne Becher (1792–1864), cujo pai também serviu à Companhia como escritor, foi um romancista britânico ...
19 de mai. de 2024 · William Makepeace Thackeray (born July 18, 1811, Calcutta, India—died Dec. 24, 1863, London, Eng.) was an English novelist whose reputation rests chiefly on Vanity Fair (1847–48), a novel of the Napoleonic period in England, and The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (1852), set in the early 18th century.
24 de abr. de 2012 · In spite of the popularity of his novels and the iconic view of Vanity Fair in particular, he is one of the least studied of the great Victorian novelists. Early critical views of Thackeray the novelist tended to focus on the autobiographical aspects of his writing.
William Makepeace Thackeray: A Brief Biography. Robert Fletcher, Assistant Professor, West Chester University. [ Victorian Web Home —> Visual Arts —> Authors — W. M. Thackeray] illiam Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta on 18 July 1811.
Perhaps best known as a novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, in 1811. His father died when he was five, and Thackeray was sent to England to be educated. He eventually attended the Charterhouse School—infamous for its discipline—and Trinity College, Cambridge, which he…
Vanity Fair, novel of early 19th-century English society by William Makepeace Thackeray, published serially in monthly installments from 1847 to 1848 and in book form in 1848. Thackeray’s previous writings had been published either unsigned or under pseudonyms; Vanity Fair was the first work he.
