The Fitz-Boodle Papers: Including Men's Wives and Catherine - Couverture souple

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1434414426 ISBN 13 : 9781434414427

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2024

Synopsis

This collection of satirical essays and short stories presents the fictional memoirs of George Savage Fitz-Boodle, a dandy and social observer. Thackeray, with his characteristic wit and keen social commentary, uses Fitz-Boodle to critique the manners, affectations, and pretensions of British high society. Through these humorous and often biting sketches, Thackeray exposes the absurdities of class and social ambition in 19th-century England.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta. He studied at Cambridge, but, never a keen student, he left the University in 1830 to travel the continent. He began to study law but gave it up and squandered much of his inheritance on gambling and poor investments. He studied art in Paris, but he did not pursue that professionally either, except to illustrate his own novels.He was a successful novelist, earning the adulation of the very people he satirized. His death at 53 was unexpecte

Présentation de l'éditeur

Thackeray penned down his partial autobiography in The Fitz-Boodle Papers. Some are his personal experiences related to his love life. Others are great, supercilious and brilliant musings on his professions that dwelt on the provisions of culture. A tremendous work which keeps you jammed till the end!

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1434414426
• ISBN 13: 9781434414427
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Fildes Luke
• Nombre de pages: 404
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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