Thackeray
Author(s): D. J. Taylor
"Vanity Fair", published in serial parts in 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous 'all but at the top of the tree', he told his mother, 'and having a great fight up there with Dickens'. This title shows that Thackeray was a complex man, acutely sensitive to criticism and fearful of the publicity that accompanied his passage through life.
Product Information
A beautiful new edition of DJ Taylor's classic biography on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Thackeray's birth.
D.J. Taylor was born in Norwich in 1960. He is a novelist, critic and an acclaimed biographer. His Orwell: The Life won the Whitbread Biography Prize for 2003. His most recent books are Kept: A Victorian Mystery (a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year), On the Corinthian Spirit: The Decline of Amateurism in Sport, Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 and Ask Alice. He is married to the novelist Rachel Hore, has three children and lives in Norwich.
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 0.498
- : 06 April 2011
- : 198mm X 129mm X 38mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : D. J. Taylor
- : Paperback
- : 823.8
- : 512