One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mobile Becky Sharp and her gentle,...

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. A deliciously satirical attack on a money-mad society, Vanity Fair, which first appeared in 1847, is an immensely moral novel, and an...

"The Luck of Barry Lyndon" is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in serial form in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to...

Vanity Fair is one of the most distinguished works written by William Makepeace Thackeray. The novel satirises whole swaths of humanity while retaining a light touch. It also...

This is Thackeray’s first full-length novel, which appeared in serialised instalments in Fraser’s Magazine between May 1839 and February 1840. The story of Catherine...

Published in installments with the title The Luck of Barry Lyndon: A Romance of the Last Century by Fitz-Boodle in the English journal Fraser's Magazine in...

Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a...

THE ANNOUNCEMENT.On the 1st of January, 1838, I was the master of a lovely shop in the neighborhood of Oxford Market; of a wife, Mrs. Cox; of a business, both in the shaving and...

"Snobs are to be studied like other objects of Natural Science, and are a part of the Beautiful (with a large B). They pervade all classes".William Makepeace...

Der Diener Yellowplush lebt zusammen mit seinem Herrn Frederick Altamont zur Untermiete bei der Familie Shum in London. Frederick Altamont hat sich unsterblich in Mary, die...