William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18th 1811, Alipur, Calcutta - December 24th 1863, London) is one of the British novelists most important of the time victorienne. Known for its satirical works concentrating on the British middle-class, he is the author of Vanity Fair , one of the novel-headlights of the English Littérature.

Biography

The father of Thackeray which worked as administrator of the English Compagnie of the Eastern Indies ( British East India Company ) dies in 1815 having already made fortune. In 1817, William Thackeray returns to the the United Kingdom to make its studies in boarding school. It integrates then the very prestigious Trinity College of Cambridge in 1829 but does not finish its schooling there.

In 1830, Thackeray leaves to make the Grand Turn , a voyage in continental Europe that made all the noble or fortunate young people British of the 19th century and meets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Germany. It returns to the United Kingdom and resumes studies of right in 1831. Thackeray loses its share of the paternal heritage in 1833 after having invested in a newspaper which goes bankrupt very quickly and after the bankruptcy of an Indian bank in which it had placed its heritage. It leaves to Paris to follow studies of art there, sees that it gives up in front of its failure.

In 1836, Thackeray Marie with the Irish Isabella Shaw, the couple will have three girls. It is also the year of the journalistic beginnings for Thackeray which must find a means of subsistence since it cannot count any more on its heritage. Of return to London the following year, it starts to work as journalist in the newspaper of his father-in-law and writes in parallel its first novel which appears in 1840.

Thackeray leaves to visit the Middle East in 1844 after the nervous breakdown of his wife who will remain in psychiatric hospital until the end of her days. Between February 1846 and February 1847, Thackeray off writes a chronicle in the magazine Punch entitled “The snobs England” which is worth an increasing fame to him. With literary success, Thackeray finds the abundance of cash of before 1833.

As from this time, and probably to compensate for the distance of his wife, Thackeray publishes enormously and under various pseudonyms like Charles James Yellowplush , Michael Angelo Titmarsh or George Savage Fitz-Boodle .

In all the work of Thackeray, its capacity of observation of the social behaviors serves a satire of manners of the British company. But morals that Thackeray seeks to find its observations resembles catholic morals curiously “all is only vanity”. Thackeray preaches humility, work without expecting some from reward, the tolerance, the love of the others… All that is integrated perfectly at the time victorienne and finds a great echo there. Thackeray refuses to see that the individuals whom it observes are not only individuals but also the products of a system socio-policy. He refuses as much, blocked by his puritanism, of speaking about the sordid aspects of the human existence. It is for all these reasons that Charles Dickens and was opposed to him, as much in their work that in their ideas.

Works

• has Shabby Genteel Story , 1840;

• One Being Found Out ;
• Rebecca and Rowena ( Rebecca and Rowena ), 1850;
• The Wolves and the Lamb ;

Novels

• Catherine (1839)
• Memories of Barry Lyndon (1843-1844) (The Memoirs off Barry Lyndon, Esq.), at the origin of the film of Stanley Kubrick.
• the Fair with Vanities (1847-1848) (Vanity Fair); Bookstore Hatchet and Co. Library of the Best Foreign Novels. Paris. 1907
• History of Pendennis (1848-1850)
• History of Henry Esmond (1852), (The History off Henry Esmond)
• Newcomes (1853-1855), (The Newcomes),
• Virginiens (1857-1859) (The Virginians)
• Lovel, the widower (1860)
• Adventures of Philip throughout the world (1861-1862)
• Denis Duval (1864)

Various works

• Yellowplush (1837)
• the major Gahagan (1838)
• Parisian Album (1840)
• Test on the genius of George Cruikshank (1840)
• comic Tales and drafts (1841)
• second funeral of Napoleon (1841)
• the Stork sultan, or thousand and second night (1842)
• Irish Album (1843)
• History of the next French revolution (1844)
• Voyage to Cairo (1846)
• the book of the snobs (1848), (The Book off Snobs)
• Our street (1848)
• English humorists of the XVIIIe century (1853)
• four George (1855)
• Chronic with broken sticks (1863)

External bond

• Texts of Thackeray on the site of the Gutenberg project, some are translated into French

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