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Ballads

William Makepeace Thackeray

FormatEbook
Published2001
Words38,874
LanguageEnglish
ReadingIncluded
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A collection of ballads by the nineteenth-century English writer William Makepeace Thackeray, who is best known as the author of Vanity Fair. It will interest readers of Victorian poetry and those studying Thackeray's writing beyond his novels.
William Makepeace Thackeray

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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