William Thackeray – författare

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designIn William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, no one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.

Looking with vicious wit at dazzling high-society and criminal low-life, privilege and ambition, this is a classic yet anything but stuffy.‘Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts…’Self-serving social climber and anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her status and attain wealth and standing with smart Society. Clever, lively and resourceful, orphan Becky is the the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered, yet good-natured girl from a wealthy family. As both women build lives for themselves in London, Thackeray decadently satirises the corruption and flaws of 19th-Century English Society.

'What spectacle is more august than that of a great king in exile? Who is more worthy of respect than a brave man in misfortune?' When "Henry Esmond" appeared in 1852, noted writers and critics of the time acclaimed it as the best historical novel ever written. Set in the reign of Queen Anne, the story follows the troubled progress of a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army, as he painfully wrestles with an emotional allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic England until, disillusioned, he comes to terms of a kind with the Whiggish-Protestant future. This change also entails a very uncomfortable switch in his affections. The love story of Henry Esmond is charged with sombre, unconscious emotions, yet is skilfully embedded into historical events which are convincing but never too prominent.

William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible young men of Europe, set against a lucid backdrop of war and international chaos. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Carey.No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia Sedley, however, longs only for the caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is William Dobbin, devoted to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure. Set against the background of the Napoleonic wars, Thackeray's 'novel without a hero' is a lively satirical journey through English society, exposing greed, snobbery and pretension.This edition follows the text of Thackeray's revised edition of 1853. John Carey's introduction identifies Vanity Fair as a landmark in the development of European Realism, and as a reflection of Thackeray's passionate love for another man's wife.William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was born and educated to be a gentleman, but gambled away much of his fortune while at Cambridge. He trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. He was a regular contributor to periodicals and magazines and Vanity Fair was serialised in Punch in 1847-8.If you enjoyed Vanity Fair you might like Guy de Maupassant's Bel-Ami, also available in Penguin Classics.'Vanity Fair has strong claims to be the greatest novel in the English language. It is also the only English novel that challenges comparison with Tolstoy's War and Peace'John Carey

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.

Written immediately after Vanity Fair, Pendennis has a similar atmosphere of brooding disillusion, tempered by the most jovial of wits. But here Thackeray plunders his own past to create the character of Pendennis and the world in which he lives: from miserable schoolboy to striving journalist, from carefree Oxbridge to the high (and low) life of London. The result is a superbly panoramic blend of people, action and background. The true ebb and flow of life is caught and the credibility of Pen, his worldly uncle, the Major, and many of the other characters, extends far beyond the pages of the novel. Held together by Thackeray's flowing, confident prose, with its conversational ease of tone, Pendennis is as rich a portrait of England in the 1830s and 40s as it is a thorough and thoroughly entertaining self-portrait.

'What spectacle is more august than that of a great king in exile? Who is more worthy of respect than a brave man in misfortune?' When "Henry Esmond" appeared in 1852, noted writers and critics of the time acclaimed it as the best historical novel ever written. Set in the reign of Queen Anne, the story follows the troubled progress of a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army, as he painfully wrestles with an emotional allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic England until, disillusioned, he comes to terms of a kind with the Whiggish-Protestant future. This change also entails a very uncomfortable switch in his affections. The love story of Henry Esmond is charged with sombre, unconscious emotions, yet is skilfully embedded into historical events which are convincing but never too prominent.

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.Listen along with downloadable MP3 audio.When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortunes soon rise, while Amelia's fall. Greed, ambition, loyalty, folly, wisdom... this famous novel gives us a witty and satirical picture of English society during the Napoleonic wars.

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortunes soon rise, while Amelia's fall. Greed, ambition, loyalty, folly, wisdom... this famous novel gives us a witty and satirical picture of English society during the Napoleonic wars.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" is arranged under three headings.  "Composition and Publication History" combines modern scholarship with contemporary materials to elucidate the novel's composition and publication history and present different aspects of Thackeray's life and work. "Reception" reprints ten contemporary reviews, both published and unpublished, that suggest the tone of Vanity Fair's initial reception. "Contexts" includes materials relating to governesses, historical novels, the Battle of Waterloo and the military, bankruptcy, regency fashions, and the London landscape, all of which figure prominently in the novel."Criticism" is a collection of nine essays written between 1900 and 1990 that reveal the developing response to Vanity Fair.  William C. Brownell, David Cecil, G. Armour Craig, John Loofbourow, Peter K. Garrett, Richard Barickman, Susan MacDonald, Myra Stark, Ina Ferris, Catherine Peters, and James Phelan provide varied perspectives.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

The Thackeray Edition proudly announces two additions to its collection: Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The Thackeray Edition is the first full-scale scholarly edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years, and the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts and relevant printed texts. It is also a concrete attempt to put into practice a theory of scholarly editing that gives new insight into Thackeray's own compositional process.Written in 1839-40 for Fraser's Magazine, Catherine was Thackeray's first novel. Although originally intended as a spoof of the 1830s Newgate school of criminal romance, it has intrinsic merit of its own for its cynical narrator and roguish heroine, both of whom harbinger similar creations in Vanity Fair eight years later.

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All the characters in the novel - good and bad - are involved, in author''s words, into "the eternal circle of sorrow and suffering". Full of events, rich in delicate observations of the everyday life of the time, full of irony and sarcasm, the novel "vanity Fair" occupies an honorable place in the list of world literature masterpieces.

What is the "Vanity Fair"? Here is one of the opinions: this is a gathering of the most vile people, who are only interested in their own person. To survive at this "fair", you must constantly lie, pretend, hypocritical. They do not appreciate sincere feelings. Only the contents of your wallet and the presence of a tidy sum in your bank account are appreciated here. And yet, in order to deserve an honorable place among the elite, a person should be bright, as, for example, the heroine of the novel Becky. But how long will her talents last?

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Denna berättelse från 1800-talets England bjuder på allt man önska sig av en modern klassiker: två unga kvinnor med intresse för samma man, en sträng och färgrik tidsbild och en berättare på skarpaste humör. Amalia växer upp i en välbärgad och beskyddande familj. Hon underkastar sig konventionerna medan hennes vän Rebecka är medellös och tvingas lita på sin list och hänsynslöshet.tDeras väg kantas av olyckor och vågspel och de tvingas att ta de chanser som finns i det brutala samhälle de lever i. Där härskar en uppsluppen kommers driven av girighet och materialistiska begär som tillsammans med napoleontidens storpolitiska inverkningar sliter genom huvudpersonernas öden. Thackerays berättare antar rollen som presentatör och observatör tillsammans med läsaren – med en blick både för det stora dramat i varje människoöde och drivkrafter som leder och missleder dem. När Charlotte Brontë dedikerade sin roman Jane Eyre till den beundrade Thackeray så var det inte minst för hans satir över det exploaterande och patriarkala samhället i Fåfängans marknad. I originalöversättning av Carl Johan BackmanNo. 14 på tidningen The Guardians lista över de bästa engelskspråkiga böckerna någonsin.William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) var en av sin tids främsta författare och skildrare av sin tid. Med skarp satir i den anglosaxiska traditionen genomskådade han det viktorianska samhället och dess marknad av människor och varor samtidigt som han undgår att moralisera över dess invånare. Han är mest känd för Vanity fair som blivit en klassiker, men också berättelsen om äventyraren Barry Lyndon, som filmatiserats med stor framgång.

Denna berättelse från 1800-talets England bjuder på allt man önska sig av en modern klassiker: två unga kvinnor med intresse för samma man, en sträng och färgrik tidsbild och en berättare på skarpaste humör. Amalia växer upp i en välbärgad och beskyddande familj. Hon underkastar sig konventionerna medan hennes vän Rebecka är medellös och tvingas lita på sin list och hänsynslöshet.tDeras väg kantas av olyckor och vågspel och de tvingas att ta de chanser som finns i det brutala samhälle de lever i. Där härskar en uppsluppen kommers driven av girighet och materialistiska begär som tillsammans med napoleontidens storpolitiska inverkningar sliter genom huvudpersonernas öden. Thackerays berättare antar rollen som presentatör och observatör tillsammans med läsaren – med en blick både för det stora dramat i varje människoöde och drivkrafter som leder och missleder dem. När Charlotte Brontë dedikerade sin roman Jane Eyre till den beundrade Thackeray så var det inte minst för hans satir över det exploaterande och patriarkala samhället i Fåfängans marknad. I originalöversättning av Carl Johan BackmanNo. 14 på tidningen The Guardians lista över de bästa engelskspråkiga böckerna någonsin.William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) var en av sin tids främsta författare och skildrare av sin tid. Med skarp satir i den anglosaxiska traditionen genomskådade han det viktorianska samhället och dess marknad av människor och varor samtidigt som han undgår att moralisera över dess invånare. Han är mest känd för Vanity fair som blivit en klassiker, men också berättelsen om äventyraren Barry Lyndon, som filmatiserats med stor framgång.

Denna berättelse från 1800-talets England bjuder på allt man önska sig av en modern klassiker: två unga kvinnor med intresse för samma man, en sträng och färgrik tidsbild och en berättare på skarpaste humör. Amalia växer upp i en välbärgad och beskyddande familj. Hon underkastar sig konventionerna medan hennes vän Rebecka är medellös och tvingas lita på sin list och hänsynslöshet. Deras väg kantas av olyckor och vågspel och de tvingas att ta de chanser som finns i det brutala samhälle de lever i. Där härskar en uppsluppen kommers driven av girighet och materialistiska begär som tillsammans med napoleontidens storpolitiska inverkningar sliter genom huvudpersonernas öden. Thackerays berättare antar rollen som presentatör och observatör tillsammans med läsaren med en blick både för det stora dramat i varje människoöde och drivkrafter som leder och missleder dem. När Charlotte Brontë dedikerade sin roman Jane Eyre till den beundrade Thackeray så var det inte minst för hans satir över det exploaterande och patriarkala samhället i Fåfängans marknad. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) var en av sin tids främsta författare och skildrare av sin tid. Med skarp satir i den anglosaxiska traditionen genomskådade han det viktorianska samhället och dess marknad av människor och varor samtidigt som han undgår att moralisera över dess invånare. Han är mest känd för Vanity fair som blivit en klassiker, men också berättelsen om äventyraren Barry Lyndon, som filmatiserats med stor framgång. No. 14 på tidningen The Guardians lista över de bästa engelskspråkiga böckerna någonsin. -

Denna berättelse från 1800-talets England bjuder på allt man önska sig av en modern klassiker: två unga kvinnor med intresse för samma man, en sträng och färgrik tidsbild och en berättare på skarpaste humör. Amalia växer upp i en välbärgad och beskyddande familj. Hon underkastar sig konventionerna medan hennes vän Rebecka är medellös och tvingas lita på sin list och hänsynslöshet. Deras väg kantas av olyckor och vågspel och de tvingas att ta de chanser som finns i det brutala samhälle de lever i. Där härskar en uppsluppen kommers driven av girighet och materialistiska begär som tillsammans med napoleontidens storpolitiska inverkningar sliter genom huvudpersonernas öden. Thackerays berättare antar rollen som presentatör och observatör tillsammans med läsaren med en blick både för det stora dramat i varje människoöde och drivkrafter som leder och missleder dem. När Charlotte Brontë dedikerade sin roman Jane Eyre till den beundrade Thackeray så var det inte minst för hans satir över det exploaterande och patriarkala samhället i Fåfängans marknad. I originalöversättning av Carl Johan Backman William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) var en av sin tids främsta författare och skildrare av sin tid. Med skarp satir i den anglosaxiska traditionen genomskådade han det viktorianska samhället och dess marknad av människor och varor samtidigt som han undgår att moralisera över dess invånare. Han är mest känd för Vanity fair som blivit en klassiker, men också berättelsen om äventyraren Barry Lyndon, som filmatiserats med stor framgång. No. 14 på tidningen The Guardians lista över de bästa engelskspråkiga böckerna någonsin. -

William Thackeray [1811–1863] var en brittisk författare och en av det viktorianska Englands främsta författare. Till hans mest kända verk hör Den välborne Barry Lyndons memoirer, Snobbarnas bok (som också myntade ordet "snobb") och Fåfängans marknad från 1848.

William Thackeray [1811–1863] var en brittisk författare och en av det viktorianska Englands främsta författare. Till hans mest kända verk hör Den välborne Barry Lyndons memoirer, Snobbarnas bok (som också myntade ordet "snobb") och Fåfängans marknad från 1848.

Redmond Barry, a spirited young Irishman, embarks on an ambitious journey through 18th-century Europe. Starting from his rural roots in Ireland, he sets his sights on the heights of aristocratic society. Through a series of calculated moves and fortunate encounters, Barry navigates the complexities of courtship and social climbing. His path intertwines with historical events and influential figures, shaping his rise from obscurity to prominence. Yet, beneath the veneer of glamour and success, Barry's journey is fraught with personal sacrifices and moral compromises. William Thackeray's narrative skillfully unfolds Barry Lyndon's saga with a blend of satire and insight into human nature. Through Barry's adventures and misadventures, Thackeray examines the allure of social status and the moral dilemmas faced by those who pursue it relentlessly. WILLIAM THACKERAY [1811-1863] was one of Victorian England’s most prominent authors. Among his most famous works are Vanity Fair [1847-1848] and The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [1844].