The William Makepeace Thackeray Page
( 1811-1863 )
Major Works
Four or five of Thackeray's novels are available from Oxford World's Classics or from Penguin. Also, Vanity Fair is in a Norton Critical Edition, edited by Peter L. Shillingsburg.
Yellowplush Papers ( 1837 ).
Samuel Titmarsh ( 1841 ).
Luck of Barry Lyndon ( 1844 ).
The Book of Snobs ( 1846; 48 ).
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero ( 1848 ).
The History of Pendennis ( 1849-50 ).
The History of Henry Esmond ( 1852 ).
The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century ( 1853 ).
The Newcomes ( 1853-55 ).
The Rose and the Ring ( 1855 ).
The Virginians ( 1857-59 ).
The Four Georges ( 1860 ).
The Adventures of Philip ( 1861-62 ).
The Roundabout Papers ( 1863 ).
Denis Duval ( 1864-67 ).
Letters and Private Papers. Four Volumes. Edited by Gordon N. Ray. Harvard, 1945-46. Reprinted by Octagon, 1980.
Selected Letters. Edited by Edgar F. Harden. New York, 1997.
About Thackeray
Gordon N. Ray, The Buried Life: A Study of the Relation between Thackeray's Fiction and His Personal History. Harvard, 1952.
Geoffrey Tillotson, Thackeray the Novelist. Cambridge, 1954.
William "Snob" Makepeace Thackeray. Breezy biographical sketch.
William Makepeace Thackeray from The Victorian Web.
Thackeray Criticism from Internet Public Library.
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