Vanity Fair

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Beschreibung

William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1811, but was sent to England at the age of six. After his education at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, having gambled away much of his fortune at university, he settled in Paris and tried a career as a painter. It was here that he met nineteen-year-old Isabella Shawe, upon whom he based many of his virtuous but weak heroines, and whom he married in 1836, before returning to London with her a year later. He was a novelist and journalist, writing prolifically for numerous periodicals and magazines - <i>Vanity Fair </i>was first published as a twenty-part serial in <i>Punch</i> in 1847-8 - and becoming editor of the newly established <i>Cornhill Magazine </i>in 1860. Thackeray, who had a penchant for eating and drinking heavily and led a generally unhealthy lifestyle, died suddenly of a stroke in 1863.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780141199641

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

204 x 131 x 53 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)