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A Little Dinner at Timmins's
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A satirical short story by Victorian novelist Thackeray, following a young middle-class couple whose modest dinner party escalates into an extravagant, costly affair driven by social ambition. Suited to readers of nineteenth-century English literature and comic social satire.
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick.
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