EAN: 9780141199641

VANITY FAIR - WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY KARTO...

William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1811  but was sent to England
at the age of six. After his education at Charterhouse and Trinity College  Cambridge  having
gambled away much of his fortune at university  he settled in Paris and tried a career as a
painter. It was here that he met nineteen-year-old Isabella Shawe  upon whom he based many of
his virtuous but weak heroines  and whom he married in 1836  before returning to London with
her a year later. He was a novelist and journalist  writing prolifically for numerous
periodicals and magazines - Vanity Fair was first published as a twenty-part serial in Punch in
1847-8 - and becoming editor of the newly established Cornhill Magazine in 1860. Thackeray  who
had a penchant for eating and drinking heavily and led a generally unhealthy lifestyle  died
suddenly of a stroke in 1863.

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