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William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) was a multitalented writer and illustrator born in British India. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where some of his earliest writings appeared in university periodicals. As a young adult he encountered various financial issues including the failure of two newspapers. It wasn’t until his marriage in 1836 that he found direction in both his life and career. Thackeray regularly contributed to Fraser's Magazine, where he debuted a serialized version of one of his most popular novels, The Luck of Barry Lyndon. He spent his decades-long career writing novels, satirical sketches and art criticism.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This seems to be Thackeray as moralist. The preceding decade had seen an explosion in the new genre of crime novels which he believed had glorified criminals and raised lowlifes to hero status, culminating, at least in a literary sense, with the very recently published Oliver Twist. In this, his second novel after the highly amusing Yellowplush Papers, Thackeray set out to counteract what he saw as this pernicious trend.His intention seems to have been to present banal lowlifes as exactly that. He succeeded so well that he created a very dull book about singularly unattractive and unappealing characters.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Not a good book. Poor story, uninteresting characters, boring in all respects and the author constantly interrupts the story with silly comments of his own. Disappointing, coming from Thackeray, but I think it was his first novel.