EAN: 9780141199641

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William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1811 but was sent to England at the age of six. After his education at Charterhouse and Trinity College Cambridge having gambled away much of his fortune at university he settled in Paris and tried a career as a painter. It was here that he met nineteen-year-old Isabella Shawe upon whom he based many of his virtuous but weak heroines and whom he married in 1836 before returning to London with her a year later. He was a novelist and journalist writing prolifically for numerous periodicals and magazines - Vanity Fair was first published as a twenty-part serial in Punch in 1847-8 - and becoming editor of the newly established Cornhill Magazine in 1860. Thackeray who had a penchant for eating and drinking heavily and led a generally unhealthy lifestyle died suddenly of a stroke in 1863.

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