William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair is a story of two heroines---humble Ameila Sedley and social climber Becky Sharp---who meet in boarding school and embark on markedly different lives. Amid the swirl of London's posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Through it all, Thackeray lampoons the shallow values of his society, reserving the most pointed barbs for the upper crust. What results is a prescient look at the dogged pursuit of wealth...

When Fairy Blackstick created a magical rose and ring, she did not anticipate their existence to be so troublesome. With the power to warp perception, the rose and the ring each make their bearer seem beautiful and irresistibly charming. However, as they are passed down, the magic of the items had been forgotten, leaving their new owners clueless of this ability. The ring resides in the Paflagonia kingdom. Giglio, the King's nephew, is the rightful...

Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray first published in the magazine Punch as The Snobs of England, By One of Themselves. Published in 1848, the book was serialised in 1846/47 around the same time as Vanity Fair. While the word 'snob' had been in use since the end of the 18th century Thackeray's adoption of the term to refer to people who look down on others who are "socially inferior" quickly gained popularity....

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair (1847), a panoramic portrait of English society. Thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, with a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts like Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, Barry Lyndon in Barry Lyndon (1844) and Catherine in Catherine (1839). In his earliest works, writing under such pseudonyms as Charles...

William Makepeace Thackeray's "John Lecch's Pictures of Life and Characters" focuses around his opinions of the works of English caricaturist and illustrator, John Leech (29 August 1817 - 29 October 1864).

The gabion was ours. After two hours' fighting we were in possession of the first embrasure, and made ourselves as comfortable as circumstances would admit. Jack Delamere, Tom Delancy, Jerry Blake, the Doctor, and myself, sat down under a pontoon, and our servants laid out a hasty supper on a tumbrel. Though Cambaceres had escaped me so provokingly after I cut him down, his spoils were mine; a cold fowl and a Bologna sausage were found in the Marshal's...

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair (1847), a panoramic portrait of English society. Thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, with a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts like Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, Barry Lyndon in Barry Lyndon (1844) and Catherine in Catherine (1839). In his earliest works, writing under such pseudonyms as Charles...

"The Paris Sketch Book" is a look at France shortly after the time of Napoleon. The author William Makepeace Thackeray is famous for his dry wit and for his other classic books. He is also credited with inventing a new word 'snob' in his novel "The Book of Snobs, by One of Themselves"

London, 1814: In der glanzvollen Welt der britischen Oberschicht bestimmt nicht Moral, sondern Eitelkeit den Wert eines Menschen - gemessen an Titeln, Beziehungen und der Kunst des schönen Scheins. Inmitten dieser Gesellschaft treffen zwei junge Frauen aufeinander, deren Schicksale sich verflechten werden. Die mittellose, aber scharfsinnige Becky Sharp und ihre gutmütige Freundin Amelia Sedley könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Während Amelia...

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by William Makepeace Thackeray: The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan, Barry Lyndon, The Bedford-Row Conspiracy, The Book of Snobs, Burlesques, Catherine: A Story, The Christmas Books, The Fatal Boots, The Fitz-Boodle Papers, Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, George Cruikshank, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., The History of Pendennis, The History of Samuel Titmarsh, Memoirs...