Thackeray

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

In mid-19th century England, an era full of celebrated novelists, Anthony Trollope was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed of them all. Even today, his Chronicles of Barsetshire series is widely read, as are his other novels, many of which deal with criticisms of English culture at the time, from its politics to its customs and norms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781523829262
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	02/02/2016
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.22(d)

About the Author

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) started his writing career while working in Ireland as a postal surveyor. Travelling around the country, Trollope gained knowledge of the country and its people which proved to be useful material for his first two novels, The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847) and The Kellys and the O'Kellys (1848). Trollope soon started writing fiercely, producing a series entitled Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Warden, the first in the series, was published in 1855. Barchester Towers (1857), the comic masterpiece, Doctor Thorne (1858), Framley Parsonage (1861), The Small House at Allington (1864) and The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) followed, portraying events in an imaginary English county of Barsetshire. In 1867, Trollope left the Post Office to run as a candidate for the Parliament. Having lost at the elections, Trollope focused on his writing. A satire from his later writing, The Way We Live Now (1875) is often viewed as Trollope's major work, however, his popularity and writing reputation diminished at the later stage of his life. Anthony Trollope died in London in 1882.

Table of Contents

1. Biographical; 2. Fraser's Magazine and Punch; 3. Vanity Fair; 4. Pendennis and The Newcomes; 5. Esmond and The Virginians; 6. Thackeray's burlesques; 7. Thackeray's lectures; 8. Thackeray's ballads; 9. Thackeray's style and manner of work.