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| William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| 1811–63, English novelist, b. Calcutta, India. He is important not only as a great novelist but also as a brilliant satirist.… In 1848, Thackeray achieved widespread popularity with his humorous Book of Snobs and the same year rose to major rank among English novelists with Vanity Fair, a satirical panorama of upper-middle-class London life and manners at the beginning of the 19th cent. The novel contains many fascinating characters, particularly Becky Sharp, who, although clever and unscrupulous, is also extremely appealing.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  th k´ -r , thk´r from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Vanity Fair, A Novel without a Hero
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vols. V & VI.
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- Bartlett’s Thackeray Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Thackeray, William Makepeace, 57724 to 57743
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT THACKERAY
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- “Thackeray”
Chapter by A. Hamilton Thompson with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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- “Thackeray in America”
Essay by George William Curtis from Matthews’s the Oxford Book of American Essays.
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