The inheritance of genius: a Thackeray family biography, 1798-1875
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1. Verfasser: Aplin, John (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, U.K. Lutterworth Press 2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-300) and index
Front Cover ; Epigram; Title Page; Copyright ; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Prelude and Acknowledgements; 1. SCENES OF ALL SORTS; 2. NOT YET ACTORS IN THE PLAY; 3. OUR STREET; 4. A LITTLE RAIN OF DOLLARS; 5. TOWARDS THE UNKNOWN OCEAN; 6. HERE IS NIGHT AND REST; 7. ALL THIS ENDLESS YEAR; 8. A WOMAN'S CARES AND JOYS; 9. A GREAT ENORMOUS HALF GROWN PLACE; 10. THE SHABBY TIDE OF PROGRESS; 11. THE INSCRUTABLE DESIGN; NOTES; THACKERAY AND RITCHIE FAMILY TREE; ABBREVIATIONS AND SOURCES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; Back Cover
In his day, William Makepeace Thackeray was one of England's premier novelists, possessed of both great cultural insight and an incisive pen. With time, however, the man himself has fallen from view. Seen today only through the window of his fiction, the author of Vanity Fair is all too readily written off as just another figure amidst the club-centred, bachelor world of mid-Victorian England that fills his writings. Working with previously unpublished family letters, journals, notebooks and diaries, John Aplin seeks to reintroduce us to W.M. Thackeray as the paterfamilias of an intimate famil
Beschreibung:xv, 309 pages
ISBN:0718842103
9780718842109
9780718892241
0718892240

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