W. M. Thackeray's Works

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Contributions to Punch, 1843-1854

• The Book of Snobs
• Trollope's discussion
• Miss Tickletoby's Lectures on English History
• Trollope's discussion
• Papers by the Fat Contributor
• The History of the Next French Revolution
• A Little Dinner at Timmins's

Fiction

• The Luck of Barry Lyndon, 1844
• Introduction
• Trollope on the novel
• Mrs. Perkin's Ball, 1846
• Vanity Fair, 1847
• Trollope's chapter on the novel
• Reading questions
• Extensive discussion
• Pendennis1850
• Trollope on the absence of the heroic in the novel
• Pendennis and Thackeray's honest representation of character
• Henry Esmond, 1852
• Trollope's chapter on the novel
• “the greatest of Thackeray's works” Trollope
• The Newcomes, 1853-55
• Trollope's chapter on the novel
• The Virginians, 1857
• Trollope's chapter on the novel

Criticism and Reviews

• "Laman Blachard" (essay) originally appeared in Fraser's
• Carlyle’s French Revolution (fascinating review by someone least likely to like Carlyle)

Art Criticism

• Thackeray on Turner's Rain-Steam-Speed
• Thackeray on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire

Verse

• “The Crystal Palace” (1851)

Trollope on Thackeray’s Verse

• Trollope's chapter on the ballads
• “The Ballad of Bouillabaisse”
• “The Cane-bottomed Chair”
• “The Cristal Palace”
• “The Chronicle of the Drum”
• “The Great Cossack Epic ”
• “Peg of Limavaddy”
• “Two Hundred Pounds”
• “The White Squall”
• The Willow-Tree I & II (Thackeray parodies Thackeray)

Caricature and Book Illustration

• Thackeray as Book Illustrator (homepage)
• Thackeray as Illustrator — the complete illustrations to Vanity Fair
• A selection of Thackeray's other drawings
• Thackeray and his illustrators as collaborators
• Doyle and Thackeray: the Struggle for Dominance

Letters

• Some New Thackeray Letters

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Last modified 5 April 2020