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Title: Thackeray

Author: Anthony Trollope

Release Date: June 21, 2006 [eBook #18645]

Language: English

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English Men of Letters

Edited by John Morley

THACKERAY

by

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

London:
MacMillan and Co.
1879.
The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.
Charles Dickens and Evans,
Crystal Palace Press.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
BIOGRAPHICAL 1

CHAPTER II.

FRASER'S MAGAZINE AND PUNCH 62

CHAPTER III.

VANITY FAIR 90

CHAPTER IV.

PENDENNIS AND THE NEWCOMES 108

CHAPTER V.

ESMOND AND THE VIRGINIANS 122

CHAPTER VI.

THACKERAY'S BURLESQUES 139

CHAPTER VII.

THACKERAY'S LECTURES 154

CHAPTER VIII.

THACKERAY'S BALLADS 168

CHAPTER IX.

THACKERAY'S STYLE AND MANNER OF WORK 184

THACKERAY

CHAPTER I.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

In the foregoing volumes of this series of _English Men of Letters_, and
in other works of a similar nature which have appeared lately as to the
_Ancient Classics_ and _Foreign Classics_, biography has naturally been,
if not the leading, at any rate a considerable element. The desire is
common to all readers to know not only what a great writer has written,
but also of what nature has been the man who has produced such great
work. As to all the authors taken in hand before, there has been extant
some written record of the man's life. Biographical details have been
more or less known to t