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Thackeray

Thackeray

by D J Taylor (Author), D J Taylor (Author), D J Taylor (Author)

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    Hardcover 1999

    $3.28

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    Paperback 2000

    $6.75
Synopsis

VANITY FAIR, published 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous - all but the top of the tree, he told his mother, and having a great fight up there with Dickens, if truth be known. Behind him lay an extraordinary life - an intense, Anglo Indian childhood, dominated by the figure of his mother; a fortune lsot by his early twenties: a disastrous marriage to a wife who went mad and left him to bring up their two small daughters in near penury.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 512
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 30 Sep 1999
ISBN 10: 0701162317
ISBN 13: 9780701162313
Book Overview: A wonderful timely and rivettingly readable biography of the author of VANITY FAIR by one of our most brilliant young critics. The first major study of Thackeray for 20 years.

Media Reviews
Brilliant...the most enjoyable and skillful biography I have read this year. --A.N. Wilson, Literary Review Outstanding...a formidable critical and imaginative intelligence at work. --Frank McLynn, Evening Standard From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author Bio
O.J. Taylor is the author of four novels, most recently Trespass, and several works of non-fiction including the controversial A Vain Conceit and After the War: The Novel in England Since 1945. From the Trade Paperback edition.