These letters have been selected according to their ability to convey the essential biographical developments of a very interesting life, and their ability to represent highly characteristic verbal and pictorial expressions of a great man of letters. In spite of his struggles, Thackeray articulates in his letters an exhuberance characteristic of one of the great enjoyers of life. Seventy five of his comical illustrations accompany the texts of these letters.

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Book Title: Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray
Editors: Edgar F. Harden
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14073-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-66073-7Published: 14 November 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-14075-6Published: 01 January 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-14073-2Published: 15 November 1996
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 416
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature

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Front Matter

The Letters

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