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Thackeray

D J Taylor

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English
Vintage
15 September 2011
'Brilliant... A most enjoyable and skilful biography' - A. N. Wilson

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'. Behind him lay an extraordinary life - an intense, Anglo-Indian childhood, a fortune lost by his early twenties, a disastrous marriage to a wife who went mad and left him to bring up two small daughters in near penury.

But his later life was no less troubled. As D.J. Taylor shows in this incisive biography, Thackeray was a complex, touchy man, acutely sensitive to criticism and fearful of the publicity that accompanied his passage through life.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 37mm
Weight:   484g
ISBN:   9780099563259
ISBN 10:   0099563258
Pages:   512
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Thackeray

Brilliant...the most enjoyable and skillful biography I have read this year. --A.N. Wilson, @lt;i@gt;Literary Review@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Outstanding...a formidable critical and imaginative intelligence at work. --Frank McLynn, @lt;i@gt;Evening Standard@lt;/i@gt;


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