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William Makepeace Thackeray

English satirist (1811-1863)

About William Makepeace Thackeray

Journalist, caricaturist and novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray is one of England's great satirical novelists. In his day he was nearly as popular as Dickens, with whom he had a lifelong rivalry. Barry Lyndon was his first succees, and Vanity Fair his most popular book, although many of his fans prefer The History of Henry Esmond.

William Makepeace Thackeray Novels Available at Mousehold Words

The Bedford-Row Conspiracy (1840)
3 parts of 5,000-7,000 words each.

A short early work by Thackeray, in which a young couple must cope with both family feuds and rural politics in order to marry.
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond (1841)

In preparation for future release.
Vanity Fair (1847-48)
20 parts of 12,000-16,000 words each.

Becky Sharp leads a cast of fashionable characters through one of the best satirical novels in English literature. Along the way she and her schoolfriend Amelia Sedley encounter love, war, poverty, disappointment, shame, and death, all told in Thackeray's captivating prose. Thackeray was master of the serial form; some of his relatively subtle part-endings leave the reader as anxious to read on as any more obvious cliffhanger could.

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