1891 Thackeray - ADVENTURES OF BOUDIN

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), was an English novelist. He is important not only as a great novelist but also as a brilliant satirist. Thackeray left Cambridge without a degree and later entered the Middle Temple to study law. In 1833 he became editor of a periodical, the "National Standard". His "Yellowplush Correspondence," in which a footman assumes the role of social and literary critic of the times, appeared in Fraser's. As a contributor to Punch he often parodied the false romantic sentiment pervading the fiction of his day. In 1848, Thackeray achieved widespread popularity with his humorous "Book of Snobs" and the same year rose to major rank among English novelists with "Vanity Fair", a satirical panorama of upper-middle-class London life and manners at the beginning of the 19th century. The novel contains many fascinating characters, particularly Becky Sharp, who, although clever and unscrupulous, is also extremely appealing. His reputation increased in 1850 with the completion of the partly autobiographical novel "Pendennis". In 1851 he delivered a series of lectures, "English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century", hich he repeated in a tour of the United States. In 1852 his novel of 18th-century life, "Henry Esmond", appeared. "The Newcomes", in which some of the characters of Pendennis reappear, came out serially. He delivered another series of lectures in the United States entitled "The Four Georges". His next novel, "The Virginians", is a continuation of the Esmond story. In 1860 Thackeray became editor of the newly founded "Cornhill Magazine", in which his last novels appeared "Lovel the Widower", "The Adventures of Philip", and the unfinished historical romance, "Denis Duval".

Boudin - Thackeray's fictional Boulogne Fisherman!

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