Selected Letters of 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.

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One of the world's leading authorities on Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University in England, and is the author of several books including The Emergence of Thackeray's Serial Fiction. Mike Hill is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany. He is the editor of Whiteness: A Critical Reader (NYU Press, 1997), and the co-editor of Masses, Classes, and the Public Sphere.