William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical...

Men's Wives

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Born in Calcutta in 1811, William Makepeace Thackeray's earliest works were sharp satirical barbs written under a variety of pen names. After struggling through a rocky start as an author, Thackeray would go...

Catherine

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Though he originally set out to depict criminals in as harshly accurate a light as possible, without the sentimentalization that he saw and disdained in Dickens' work, Thackeray's fictionalized account of the...

Ballads

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Though he is best remembered as the satirical novelist who penned nineteenth-century masterpieces such as Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray was also an accomplished poet. This volume collects some of...

The Newcomes

by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Newcomes is a sprawling novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, who also penned the popular novel Vanity Fair. Considered by many critics to be Thackeray's finest work, The Newcomes follows...

The Essential William Makepeace Thackeray Collection

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by William Makepeace Thackeray:

The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan

Barry Lyndon

The Bedford-Row Conspiracy

The Book of Snobs

Burlesques

Catherine: A...

Vanity Fair: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by William Makepeace Thackeray

"I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."

--Robert Louis Stevenson

"The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers...

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. She may not have the natural advantages of her companion but she more than...

Vanity Fair: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by William Makepeace Thackeray

A marvelous, incisive social satire that gleefully exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars through its tracing of the changing fortunes of two unforgettable...