Thackeray : a writer's life

著者

• Peters, Catherine

書誌事項

Thackeray : a writer's life

Sutton, 1999

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Born into gentlemanly affluence, William Thackeray's life was shattered by early separation from his mother. Unhappy at school and idle at Cambridge, he gambled away part of his fortune before he was 21. This biography explores his life and literary success and is illustrated with his own drawings.

目次

• The passage from India
• "the education of a gentleman" and the education of a writer
• the idle apprentice
• marriage
• days of trouble
• "Punch"
• "Vanity Fair"
• "Pendennis"
• "Esmond" - the power of the past
• new worlds for old
• the toad under the harrow
• "Vanitas vanitatum" - the end of the story.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA4878820X
• ISBN:
  • 0750923067
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Stroud
• ページ数/冊数: 292 p.
• 大きさ: 22cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 823.8
• 件名:
  • BLSH : Thackeray, W. M. (...William Makepeace...), 1811-1863 -- Biography
  • LCSH : Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography