Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray

by William Makepeace Thackeray

In Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden provides a lively and accessible framework for selected letters, diaries, and comical illustrations of Thackeray. Harden has carefully selected documents which convey the essential biographical developments of a very interesting life and pictorial expressions of a great man of letters. He traces Thackeray's 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.
In spite of his personal struggles Thackeray articulates in his letters a great exuberance for life. Harden has included seventy five of Thackeray's comical illustrations, which support and enhance the letters they accompany.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814735460
• ISBN13: 9780814735466
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"