The William Makepeace Thackeray Library: Volume I - Early Fiction and Journalism

ISBN-13: 9781138699410 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 446 str.

Richard Pearson

Opis

This volume contains extracts of William Makepeace Thackeray s early fiction and journalism in the 1830s and 1840s. In his early career, Thackeray worked as an editor, sub-editor, writer, reviewer, foreign journalist, illustrator, versifier, and hack reporter, and by 1837 had managed to maintain an unbroken and multi-faceted literary output through magazines, journals and newspapers for fourteen years. With an introduction by Richard Pearson, this books reveals some of Thackeray s early and lesser-known work.

This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature. "

Spis treści

Introduction Richard Pearson; ‘Half-a-Crown’s Worth of Cheap Knowledge’, Fraser’s Magazine, March 1838; ‘Horae Catnachianae’, Fraser’s Magazine, April 1839; ‘Catherine: A Story’, Works, vol. 20 and Fraser’s Magazine, February 1840; ‘The Ravenswing’, Works, vol. 20; ‘May Gambols; or, Titmarsh in the Picture Galleries’, Works, vol. 25; ‘The Fat Contributor Papers’, Works, vol. 26; ‘The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche’, Works, vol. 15

O autorze

Richard Pearson