William Makepeace Thackeray (/ˈθækəri/; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He is famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
Biography
Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), was secretary to the Board of Revenue in the British East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864), was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company.
Richmond died in 1815, which caused Anne to send her son to England in 1816, while she remained in India. The ship on which he travelled made a short stopover at St. Helena, where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him. Once in England he was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick, and then at Charterhouse School, where he became a close friend of John Leech. Thackeray disliked Charterhouse, and parodied it in his fiction as "Slaughterhouse". Nevertheless, Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death. Illness in his last year there, during which he reportedly grew to his full height of six foot three, postponed his matriculation at Trinity College, Cambridge, until February 1829. Never too keen on academic studies, Thackeray left Cambridge in 1830, but some of his earliest published writing appeared in two university periodicals, The Snob and The Gownsman.
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Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his era's conventions regarding literary heroism. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel.
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VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his era's conventions regarding literary heroism. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel.
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Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Novel
Publisher: Punch Magazine
Publication date: 1847
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CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 - Chapter 1: Chiswick Mall
00:20:44 - Chapter 2: In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
00:47:56 - Chapter 3: Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy
01:08:24 - Chapter 4: The Green Silk Purse
01:45:36 - Chapter 5: Dobbin of Ours
02:17:36 - Chapter 6: Vauxhall
02:54:08 - Chapter 7: Crawley of Queen's Crawley
03:15:47 - Chapter 8: Private and Confidential
03:43:00 - Chapter 9: Family Portraits
04:04:28 - Chapter 10: Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
04:21:54 - Chapter 11: Arcadian Simplicity
05:05:57 - Chapter 12: Quite a Sentimental Chapter
05:31:28 - Chapter 13: Sentimental and Otherwise
06:07:13 - Chapter 14: Miss Crawley at Home
07:01:02 - Chapter 15: In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time
07:27:29 - Chapter 16: The Letter on the Pincushion
07:53:09 - Chapter 17: How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his era's conventions regarding literary heroism. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel.
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Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Novel
Publisher: Punch Magazine
Publication date: 1847
Part 2 of 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7PLTzBe-qM
Part 3 of 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRA4QPDxjUo
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CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 - Chapter 1: Chiswick Mall
00:20:44 - Chapter 2: In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
00:47:56 - Chapter 3: Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy
01:08:24 - Chapter 4: The Green Silk Purse
01:45:36 - Chapter 5: Dobbin of Ours
02:17:36 - Chapter 6: Vauxhall
02:54:08 - Chapter 7: Crawley of Queen's Crawley
03:15:47 - Chapter 8: Private and Confidential
03:43:00 - Chapter 9: Family Portraits
04:04:28 - Chapter 10: Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
04:21:54 - Chapter 11: Arcadian Simplicity
05:05:57 - Chapter 12: Quite a Sentimental Chapter
05:31:28 - Chapter 13: Sentimental and Otherwise
06:07:13 - Chapter 14: Miss Crawley at Home
07:01:02 - Chapter 15: In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time
07:27:29 - Chapter 16: The Letter on the Pincushion
07:53:09 - Chapter 17: How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
In this class, Brishti Mukherjee will discuss some important novels of Thackeray in detail. This class will be helpful for UG, PG & NTA NET English literature a...
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VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his era's conventions regarding literary heroism. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel.
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Audiobook Name: Vanity Fair
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Novel
Publisher: Punch Magazine
Publication date: 1847
Part 2 of 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7PLTzBe-qM
Part 3 of 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRA4QPDxjUo
Part 4 of 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNLrCFMbRCQ
Vanity Fair PLAYLIST (ALL PARTS): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt6IQaRRYhM6HlJFHzwUQdBDVh9pqqJfH
More from William Makepeace Thackeray: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt6IQaRRYhM7cIHtgz74xC_snUJQktbli
CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 - Chapter 1: Chiswick Mall
00:20:44 - Chapter 2: In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
00:47:56 - Chapter 3: Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy
01:08:24 - Chapter 4: The Green Silk Purse
01:45:36 - Chapter 5: Dobbin of Ours
02:17:36 - Chapter 6: Vauxhall
02:54:08 - Chapter 7: Crawley of Queen's Crawley
03:15:47 - Chapter 8: Private and Confidential
03:43:00 - Chapter 9: Family Portraits
04:04:28 - Chapter 10: Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
04:21:54 - Chapter 11: Arcadian Simplicity
05:05:57 - Chapter 12: Quite a Sentimental Chapter
05:31:28 - Chapter 13: Sentimental and Otherwise
06:07:13 - Chapter 14: Miss Crawley at Home
07:01:02 - Chapter 15: In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time
07:27:29 - Chapter 16: The Letter on the Pincushion
07:53:09 - Chapter 17: How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
In this class, Brishti Mukherjee will discuss some important novels of Thackeray in detail. This class will be helpful for UG, PG & NTA NET English literature aspirants.
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→ Reading VANITY FAIR Vlog: https://youtu.be/mLaytsxPLGI
→ Longest Books on My Penguin English Library Collection: https://youtu.be/DXHV7ewpydE
→ VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray: https://bit.ly/3uziLAt
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William Makepeace Thackeray (/ˈθækəri/; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He is famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
Biography
Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), was secretary to the Board of Revenue in the British East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864), was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company.
Richmond died in 1815, which caused Anne to send her son to England in 1816, while she remained in India. The ship on which he travelled made a short stopover at St. Helena, where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him. Once in England he was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick, and then at Charterhouse School, where he became a close friend of John Leech. Thackeray disliked Charterhouse, and parodied it in his fiction as "Slaughterhouse". Nevertheless, Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death. Illness in his last year there, during which he reportedly grew to his full height of six foot three, postponed his matriculation at Trinity College, Cambridge, until February 1829. Never too keen on academic studies, Thackeray left Cambridge in 1830, but some of his earliest published writing appeared in two university periodicals, The Snob and The Gownsman.
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