The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, Catherine, Pendennis, The Newcomes, The Virginians, The History ... Active Table of Contents) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

This collection gathers together the works by William Makepeace Thackeray in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!Fiction:A Legend of the RhineA Little Dinner at Timmins’sBalladsBarber Cox and the Cutting of His CombBurlesquesCatherine, a StoryDr. Birch and His Young FriendsMen’s WivesMrs. Perkins’s BallNovels by Eminent HandsOur StreetRebecca and Rowena; A Romance Upon RomanceRoundabout PapersStubbs’s Calendar; or, the Fatal BootsThe Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him ByThe Bedford-Row ConspiracyThe Book of SnobsThe Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. TitmarshThe Diary of C. Jeames De La PlucheThe Fitz-Boodle PapersThe History of Henry Esmond: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen AnneThe History of Pendennis, His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest EnemyThe History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty DiamondThe History of the Next French Revolution, from a Forthcoming History of EuropeThe Kickleburys on the RhineThe Loving Ballad of Lord BatemanThe Luck of Barry Lyndon, a Romance of the Last CenturyThe Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. YellowplushThe Newcomes, Memoirs of a Most Respectable FamilyThe Rose and the Ring; or the History of Prince Giglio and Prince BulboThe Second Funeral of NapoleonThe Story of Mary AncelThe Tremendous Adventures of Major GahaganThe Virginians, a Tale of the Last CenturyThe Wolves and the LambVanity Fair, Pen and Pencil Sketches of English SocietyNon-Fiction:An Essay on the Genius of George CruikshankJohn Leech’s Pictures of Life and CharacterThe English Humourists of the Eighteenth CenturyThe Four Georges: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court and Town LifeTravel:Little Travels and Roadside SketchesNotes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand CairoThe Irish Sketch-BookThe Paris Sketch BookABOUT THE AUTHORDuring the Victorian era, Thackeray was ranked second only to Charles Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair. In that novel he was able to satirise whole swaths of humanity while retaining a light touch. It also features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. As a result, unlike Thackeray's other novels, it remains popular with the general reading public; it is a standard fixture in university courses and has been repeatedly adapted for movies and television.In Thackeray's own day, some commentators, such as Anthony Trollope, ranked his History of Henry Esmond as his greatest work, perhaps because it expressed Victorian values of duty and earnestness, as did some of his other later novels. It is perhaps for this reason that they have not survived as well as Vanity Fair, which satirises those values.Thackeray saw himself as writing in the realistic tradition and distinguished himself from the exaggerations and sentimentality of Dickens. Some later commentators have accepted this self-evaluation and seen him as a realist, but others note his inclination to use eighteenth-century narrative techniques, such as digressions and talking to the reader, and argue that through them he frequently disrupts the illusion of reality. The school of Henry James, with its emphasis on maintaining that illusion, marked a break with Thackeray's techniques.