Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray FROM THE PUBLISHER
In Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden provides a lively and accessible framework to Thackeray's letters, diaries, and comical illustrations, making them available for the first time to general audience. Harden traces growth and development as a writer, from his school days in Southhampton to Cambridge University, which he left without a degree, to his ascendence as a writer. Harden includes seventy-five of Thackeray's comical illustrations, which support and enhance the letters they accompany. Harden has chosen the most revealing of Thackeray's many letters to his family and friends, beginning with a letter, written when he was seven years old, to his mother. Among the letters included are those to Thackeray's publishers, which remind us of his extraordinary energy as a writer, as well as of his sometimes desperate need to support himself financially.
FROM THE CRITICS
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Distinguishing features of this collection of Thackeray's letters,
diaries, and comical illustrations include annotations following each
document and a selection that highlights essential biographical
developments in his life and career. Letters span the writer's
lifetime, from a letter to his mother at age seven to letters written
in the last year of his life. Includes a chronology, a list of
letters, and a list of repositories.
Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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