William Makepeace Thackeray
Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th
century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly “Vanity fair”. He
was also famous for his poetic creations.
Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India. His father was
working as the secretary to the board of revenue in the British East Indian
company. He studied in Trinity College, Cambridge, but left the school in 1829, and after that he was
never keen on academic studies. Then he studied law but even that, he gave up
on the way. In 836, Isabella Shaw became the life partner of Thackeray. They
had three daughters in their marriage.
Thackeray wrote number of novels from which he became
reputed. Among them, one could well remember ‘Catherin’ his first novel, the
luck of Barry Lyndon ‘Pendennis’ and ‘The history of Henry Esmond’.
He was an expert in creating sarcasm in his literary works.
He also wrote some poetry which was based on humour and sarcasm. In his poem
‘pigtail’ Thackeray laughs at a sage.
In his fiction- writing, he followed realistic tradition,
therefore, very often; he was distinguished as ‘the second Charles Dickens’.
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