William M Thackeray

A Collection of Letters of Thackeray - With portraits and reproductions of letters and drawings is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A collection of letters of Thackeray - 1847-1855 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World - Showing who Robbed him, who helped him, and who passed him by is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He is known for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. BIOGRAPHY: Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, British 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 British 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. citation needed]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. Thackeray then travelled for some time on the continent, visiting Paris and Weimar, where he met Goethe. He returned to England and began to study law at the Middle Temple, but soon gave that up. On reaching the age of 21 he came into his inheritance from his father, but he squandered much of it on gambling and on funding two unsuccessful newspapers, The National Standard and The Constitutional, for which he had hoped to write. He also lost a good part of his fortune in the collapse of two Indian banks. Forced to consider a profession to support himself, he turned first to art, which he studied in Paris, but did not pursue it, except in later years as the illustrator of some of his own novels and other writings. Thackeray's years of semi-idleness ended after he married, on 20 August 1836, Isabella Gethin Shawe (1816-1893), second daughter of Isabella Creagh Shawe and Matthew Shawe, a colonel who had died after distinguished service, primarily in India. The Thackerays had three children, all girls: Anne Isabella (1837-1919), Jane (who died at eight months old) and Harriet Marian (1840-1875), who married Sir Leslie Stephen, editor, biographer and philosopher.....

La feria de las vanidades es indiscutiblemente una de las novelas capitales del siglo XIX; admirable por su concepci n general, por la maestr a de la ejecuci n, por el estilo, y tambi n por su relaci n con las otras grandes obras novelescas que la preceden y la siguen. La s tira es implacable en ocasiones. El propio autor ha explicado que su prop sito era presentar en escena una especie de gentes que viven sin Dios, absolutamente satisfechas de s propias y convencidas de su virtud superior.

La feria de las vanidades es indiscutiblemente una de las novelas capitales del siglo XIX; admirable por su concepci n general, por la maestr a de la ejecuci n, por el estilo, y tambi n por su relaci n con las otras grandes obras novelescas que la preceden y la siguen. La s tira es implacable en ocasiones. El propio autor ha explicado que su prop sito era presentar en escena una especie de gentes que viven sin Dios, absolutamente satisfechas de s propias y convencidas de su virtud superior.

La feria de las vanidades es indiscutiblemente una de las novelas capitales del siglo XIX; admirable por su concepci n general, por la maestr a de la ejecuci n, por el estilo, y tambi n por su relaci n con las otras grandes obras novelescas que la preceden y la siguen. La s tira es implacable en ocasiones. El propio autor ha explicado que su prop sito era presentar en escena una especie de gentes que viven sin Dios, absolutamente satisfechas de s propias y convencidas de su virtud superior.