1859. Vanity Fair is Thackeray's masterpiece, but he also showed great skill in writing historical fiction with fine attention to period manners and customs and a dispassionate sympathy for his character's actions. The Virginians details the lives of George and Harry Warrington, the grandsons of Henry Esmond. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta. He studied at Cambridge, but, never a keen student, he left the University in 1830 to travel the continent. He began to study law but gave it up and squandered much of his inheritance on gambling and poor investments. He studied art in Paris, but he did not pursue that professionally either, except to illustrate his own novels. He was a successful novelist, earning the adulation of the very people he satirized. His death at 53 was unexpected.
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ON the library wall of one of the most famous writers of America, there hang two crossed swords, which his relatives wore in the great War of Independence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Madam Esmond, Lady Maria, Lord Castlewood, Sir Miles, George Warrington, Lady Warrington, Miss Theo, Lord March, Miss Hetty, Esmond Warrington, Sir George, Aunt Lambert, Lady Fanny, Aunt Bernstein, New York, Tunbridge Wells, Colonel Lambert, General Lambert, Jack Morris, Colonel Esmond, Colonel Washington, Miss Lambert, Covent Garden, Master Harry, Miss Hester New!
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ON the library wall of one of the most famous writers of America, there hang two crossed swords, which his relatives wore in the great War of Independence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Madam Esmond, Lady Maria, Lord Castlewood, Sir Miles, George Warrington, Lady Warrington, Miss Theo, Lord March, Miss Hetty, Esmond Warrington, Sir George, Aunt Lambert, Lady Fanny, Aunt Bernstein, New York, Tunbridge Wells, Colonel Lambert, General Lambert, Jack Morris, Colonel Esmond, Colonel Washington, Miss Lambert, Covent Garden, Master Harry, Miss Hester New!
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