Description
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.
| EAN: | 9780141199641 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 26.07.2012 |
| Produktform: | Kartoniert |
| Beilage: | B-format paperback |
| Titel der Reihe: | The Penguin English Library## |
| Autoren: | Thackeray, William Makepeace |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 901 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Classics |
| Keyword: | animal farm; the great gatsby; brave new world; lord of the flies; wuthering heights; of mice and men; the handmaids tale; georgette heyer; ready player one; never let me go; the martian; the boy in the striped pyjamas; the fault in our stars; charlie and the chocolate factory; do androids dream of electric sheep; elizabeth is missing; madame bovary; curious incident of the dog in the night time; the unmumsy mum; my cousin rachel; h is for hawk; flash boys; eliza rose; house of the dead; penguin english library; orphan x books in order; classic |
| Fachschema: | Englische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Klassische Lyrik, Lyrik bis 1900, Klassische Belletristik |
| Imprint-Titels: | Penguin Classics |
| Verlag: | Penguin Books Ltd (UK) |
| Länge: | 204 mm |
| Breite: | 131 mm |
| Höhe: | 53 mm |
| Gewicht: | 639 gr |
| Genre: | Importe |