The life of William Makepeace Thackeray

Lewis Melville

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^. ^j^r LIFETHE OF MAKEPEACEWILLIAM THACKERAY VOL. I We all want to know details regarding the men who have achieved famous feats, whether of war, or wit, or eloquence, or endurance, knowledge. We want toor . . . see this man who has amused and charmed us ; who has been our friend, and given us hours of pleasant com- panionship and kindly thought." "Thackeray heard from the : On a joke I once late Thomas Hood." % b W.M.THACKERAY. ' a Tmst hBenHf.. in,VuJ/ah/mal Tcrtra.it Gallay. TelUssterScAUen.Fh. Sc THE LIFE OF WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY BY MELVILLELEWIS WITH TWENTY-FIVE POR- ILLUSTRATIONSTRAITS AND IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I London : Gf COHUTCHINSON Paternoster Row, -»s -»> ^^99 BYPRINTED VINEY, LD.WATSON, ANDHAZELL, AYLESBURY.LONDON AND PR TJBRARY UNIVERSirV Oi CAUFORMAS'6f2)l SANTA i5AKBAUA2>>/ PREFACE it is more than five-and-thirty yearsTHOUGH since his death, until now there has never been published a Life of Thackeray which has had any pretensions to finality. Mr. Theodore Taylor's book, ManThackeray, the Humourist and the Letters^ wasof admittedly only a stop-gap biography; the volume "eight yearscontributed ago to the Great Writers Series " by Mr. Herman Merivale and Mr. Frank Marzials can be as much morescarcely regarded than outlining the novelist's career while Mrs.; Ritchie's interesting Biographical Introductions are little else thaii material for a full Life. No member of his family has come forward as a chronicler.

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• Thackeray

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 57
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 13 Mo

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^^99 BYPRINTED VINEY, LD.WATSON, ANDHAZELL, AYLESBURY.LONDON AND PR TJBRARY UNIVERSirV Oi CAUFORMAS'6f2)l SANTA i5AKBAUA2>>/ PREFACE it is more than five-and-thirty yearsTHOUGH since his death, until now there has never been published a Life of Thackeray which has had any pretensions to finality. Mr. Theodore Taylor's book, ManThackeray, the Humourist and the Letters^ wasof admittedly only a stop-gap biography; the volume "eight yearscontributed ago to the Great Writers Series " by Mr. Herman Merivale and Mr. Frank Marzials can be as much morescarcely regarded than outlining the novelist's career while Mrs.; Ritchie's interesting Biographical Introductions are little else thaii material for a full Life. No member of his family has come forward as a chronicler." />

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^j^rLIFETHE OF
MAKEPEACEWILLIAM
THACKERAY
VOL. IWe all want to know details regarding the men who
have achieved famous feats, whether of war, or wit, or
eloquence, or endurance, knowledge. We want toor . . .
see this man who has amused and charmed us ; who has
been our friend, and given us hours of pleasant com-
panionship and kindly thought."
"Thackeray heard from the
: On a joke I once
late Thomas Hood."%
b
W.M.THACKERAY.
' a Tmst hBenHf.. in,VuJ/ah/mal Tcrtra.it Gallay. TelUssterScAUen.Fh. ScTHE LIFE OF
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
THACKERAY
BY
MELVILLELEWIS
WITH TWENTY-FIVE POR-
ILLUSTRATIONSTRAITS AND
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I
London : Gf COHUTCHINSON
Paternoster Row, -»s -»> ^^99BYPRINTED
VINEY, LD.WATSON, ANDHAZELL,
AYLESBURY.LONDON AND