"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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William Makepeace ThackerayJuly 11, 1811 to December 24, 1863 Born in Calcutta, India & Died in London, England Novelist, essayist, poet, and editor best remembered as the author of Vanity Fair.
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"The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors."
Off-Site ResourceThe William Makepeace Thackeray Pages From The Victorian Web
BibliographyFiction Vanity Fair - 1847- 48 The History of Pendennis - 1849 - 50 The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. - 1852 The Newcomes - 1853 - 55 The Rose and the Ring - 1855 The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon - 1856 The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century - 1857 - 59 Lovel the Widower - 1860 The Adventures of Philip - 1861 - 62
Nonfiction The Book of Snobs - 1848 (articles) The English Humorists of the 18th Century - 1853 The Four Georges - 1855 - 56 Miscellanies - 1855 - 57 (articles, 4 vols.)
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"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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