Thackeray Vanity Fair

[Thackeray, William Makepeace]. The Yellowplush Correspondence. Philadelphia, E.L.Carey & A.Hart, 1838.
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. Thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, with a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts like Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, Barry Lyndon in The Luck of Barry Lyndon and Catherine in Catherine. In his earliest works, writing under such pseudonyms as Charles James Yellowplush, Michael Angelo Titmarsh and George Savage Fitz-Boodle, he tended towards the savage in his attacks on high society, military prowess, the institution of marriage and hypocrisy. Title-page to Vanity Fair, drawn by Thackeray, who furnished the illustrations for many of his earlier editions. One of his very earliest works, "Timbuctoo" (1829), contained his burlesque upon the subject set for the Cambridge Chancellor's medal for English verse, (the contest was won by Tennyson with "Timbuctoo"). His writing career really began with a series of satirical sketches now usually known as The Yellowplush Papers, which appeared in Fraser's Magazine beginning in 1837. These were adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2009, with Adam Buxton playing Charles Yellowplush. Between May 1839 and February 1840, Fraser's published the work sometimes considered Thackeray's first novel, Catherine, originally intended as a satire of the Newgate school of crime fiction but ending up more as a rollicking picaresque tale in its own right. In The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a novel serialized in Fraser's in 1844, Thackeray explored the situation of an outsider trying to achieve status in high society, a theme he developed much more successfully in Vanity Fair with the character of Becky Sharp, the artist's daughter who rises nearly to the heights by manipulating the other characters. He is best known now for Vanity Fair, with its deft skewerings of human foibles and its roguishly attractive heroine. His large novels from the period after this, once described unflatteringly by Henry James as examples of "loose baggy monsters", have faded from view, perhaps because they reflect a mellowing in the author, who became so successful with his satires on society that he seemed to lose his zest for attacking it. The later works include Pendennis, a sort of bildungsroman depicting the coming of age of Arthur Pendennis, a kind of alter ego of Thackeray's who also features as the narrator of two later novels: The Newcomes and The Adventures of Philip. The Newcomes is noteworthy for its critical portrayal of the "marriage market", while Philip is noteworthy for its semi-autobiographical look back at Thackeray's early life, in which the author partially regains some of his early satirical zest. Also notable among the later novels is The History of Henry Esmond, in which Thackeray tried to write a novel in the style of the eighteenth century. In fact, the eighteenth century held a great appeal for Thackeray. Not only Esmond but also Barry Lyndon and Catherine are set then, as is the sequel to Esmond, The Virginians, which takes place in America and includes George Washington as a character who nearly kills one of the protagonists in a duel. (Wikipedia)

8°. 238 pages. Rare original binding. Original half cloth including the original printed paper label on spine. The binding in firm, uncracked condition. Slightly rubbed and stained. First Edition of Thackeray's first book. Published in the United States three years before its British counterpart. Still a good to very good condition of this in notoriously bad condition rare publication. Front free endpaper cut, rear endpaper removed, fore-edge slightly bumped. Foxed.

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Thackeray, William Makepeace Illustrated: The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, with Biographical Introductions By His Daughter, Anne Ritchie. In Thirteen Volumes, Vol I - Vanity Fair, 1904 London Vanity Fair

Decorative Cloth Fine/No Jacket Edition: The Biographical Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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William Thackeray Illustrator: NA: LC: Vanity Fair, Pearson Education/Longman 0000 ISBN: 9788177586633

New Softcover NA The phrase "vanity fair" came to mean "a place where all is frivolity and empty show; the world or a section of it as a scene of idle amusement and unsubstantial display". For Thackeray, everyone lives in Vanity Fair or society; vanity has become the desire for society's approval and rewards; the individual seeks, not spiritual salvation, but the rewards of this worldaEUR"success, status, and wealth. Printed Pages: 0. 5th or later edition

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THACKERAY William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. A novel without a hero. With illustrations by the autor and a portrait. (The Works of Thackeray, 1.) London, Smith-Elder, 1898.

In-8 pleine toile rouge, XLIV-676-[8] pages, portrait-frontispice, 10 figures dans le texte, 21 planches. A la fin, huit pages de publicite editoriale. (Couverture legerement defraichie.) BON EXEMPLAIRE. 50

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