Essays

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) William Thackeray, author of the immortal Vanity Fair, wrote a number of other highly-regarded and well-selling novels during his very successful career, notably the well-known historical blockbuster novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon; Catherine (whose central character is a rather nasty female criminal!); The History of Pendennis (a major social panorama, partially autobiographical); The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (a sweeping historical novel set in (…)