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| | THACKERAY - LoveToKnow Article on THACKERAY |
 | | Thackeray himself was naturally accused of being a snob. | | | There is, it should be added, a distinct touch of good in Becky's conduct to Amelia at Ostend in the last chapter of the book, and those who think that too little punishment is meted out to the brilliant adventuress in the end may remember this to her credit. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/T/TH/THACKERAY.htm
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| | William Makepeace Thackeray: A Brief Biography |
| | Thackeray was also more tolerant of slavery--he wrote home to his mother that he did not recognize blacks as equals, though he did condemn the institution on moral grounds. | | | During this apprenticeship, Thackeray also produced his first books, collections of essays and observations published as travel books. | | | He also recalled the dryasdust lessons in the classical languages he was forced to learn and their deleterious effect on his feelings for classical literature, along with the grateful escapes he made to the popular fictions of the day, works such as Scott's Heart of Midlothian or Pierce Egan's Life in London. |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wmt/wmtbio.html
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| | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | Thackeray studied in a satirical and moralistic light upper- and middle-class English life - he was once seen as the equal of his contemporary Dickens, or even as his superior. | | | Thackeray abandoned his studies without taking a degree, having lost some of his inheritance of twenty thousand pounds through gambling. | | | Thackeray said that he couldn't start a novel until he knew every aspect of his characters. |
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http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wmthacke.htm
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| | Thackeray's Illustrations for "Vanity Fair" |
| | Thackeray, who intended his illustrations to be an integral part of the novel, filled it with drawings. | | | It was the author's intention, faithful to history, to depict all the characters of this tale in their proper costume, as they wore them at the commencement of this century. | | | Thackeray uses a drawing to support the reason he offers for using contemporary dress for his characters, even though the novel is set a generation earlier, when styles were quite different: |
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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/thackeray/fashion.html
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| | II, Thackeray, Yesterdays with Authors, 1871 |
| | Thackeray was a master in every sense, having as it were, in himself, a double quantity of being. | | | He was a most generous critic of the writings of his contemporaries, and no one has printed or spoken warmer praise of Dickens, in one sense his great rival, than he. | | | Thackeray's great burly figure, broad-chested, and ample as the day, seems to overshadow and quite blot out of existence the author of " The Essay on Man." But what friends they would have been had they lived as contemporaries under Queen Anne or Queen Victoria! |
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http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/ywa2.html
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| | Thackeray's Waterloo by T. Dow (PIPA Fall 97) |
| | Like his contemporary audience, Thackeray valued the study of individuals living in their historical contexts; and like George Eliot, Thackeray felt that traditional historical accounts filled with facts and dates offered incomplete and unsatisfactory accounts of the true intricacies of history: the complex interplay that exists between unwritten private individuals and documented public events. | | | Because the historical battle is intricately woven into the lives of Thackeray's characters, the Battle of Waterloo represents the author's attitude toward history and its representation: individuals share a complex relationship with global historical events; and fiction provides the elaborate setting needed to illustrate this relationship. | | | As my account of his "sham" history of the Battle of Waterloo will illustrate, Thackeray is clearly interested in his characters' "secret motives" and the relationship of these personal motives to public events. |
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http://www.illinoisphilological.org/pipa/volume/dow.htm
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| | Overview of Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" |
| | Though Thackeray set his novel a generation earlier, Thackeray was really writing about his own society (he even used contemporary clothing in his illustrations for the novel). | | | Thackeray regarded humor as doing more than making readers laugh, "the best humour is that which contains most humanity, that which is flavoured throughout with tenderness and kindness." He was compelled to write the truth about what he saw and how he understood what he saw: | | | This double aim is reflected in his description of himself as satiric and kind: "under the mask satirical there walks about a sentimental gentleman who means not unkindly to any mortal person." |
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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/thackeray/index.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Vanity Fair : A Novel without a Hero (Modern Library Classics) |
| | Thackeray wants to make sure you know what he is trying to accomplish; he wants you to see yourself and your friends and family in these character sketches. | | | Many consider William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) a minor novelist who wrote in a time when George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Anthony Trollope ruled the roost of British literature. | | | This makes having notes in the book important, as there are references to events, places, languages, and things that a modern reader would normally not be familiar with. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375757260?v=glance
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| | Thackeray, William Makepeace on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Thackeray's eldest daughter, Anne, Lady Ritchie, was also an author; his younger daughter Harriet married Sir Leslie Stephen. | | | This week, William Makepeace Thackeray goes from Boulogne to Paris.(Features) | | | Colonial discourse and William Makepeace Thackeray's 'Irish Sketch Book.' |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/T/Thackera.asp
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| | Thackeray |
| | “As well as providing an account of Thackeray’s life [my] aim is to demonstrate that he was the greatest English writer (writer, you note, not novelist) of the nineteenth century. | | | He casually refers to Victor Cousin’s Cours d’ Histoire, quoted by Thackeray in an early diary, without a word about the eclectic philosophy of this savant which lies behind the relativistic viewpoint that pervades Thackeray’s entire canon. | | | A paucity of quotation deprives readers of the wit and stylistic brilliance that even his detractors concede him. |
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http://www.utpjournals.com/product/vpr/343/thackeray5.html
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| | Bal Thackeray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Valentine's Day, interpreted as indecent and un-Indian by Thackeray, is one of his most famous actions. | | | Profile by BBC dated July 19, 2000 referring to him as the "uncrowned monarch of Maharashtra" | | | He considers himself a hard-core Hindu nationalist and has referred to himself as the "Hitler of Bombay" and the "Hitler of India."[1] People of his party and some others refer to him as Hindu Hridaysamrat ("Empror of the Hindu heart"). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_Thackeray
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| | Thackeray, William Makepeace |
| | Thackeray's keen awareness of social eccentricity is seen also in his short works, especially in The Rose and the Ring (1855), in which his own clever drawings accent the text. | | | He became a principal competitor of his great contemporary, Charles Dickens, with whom he frequently disagreed on the nature of the novel as a vehicle for social commentary. | | | In 1862 he gave up his editorship because he was unwilling to refuse manuscripts, but he continued to work for the magazine, beginning his last novel, Denis Duval, shortly before his death on December 24, 1863, in London. |
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http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/T/thackeraypeace/1.html
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Thackeray, William Makepeace |
| | Thackeray remained a married “batchelor” for the rest of his life, but faced several moral crises when drawn to women. | | | For the rest of the 1850s, he published The Newcomes (1854-5) and The Virginians (1857-9) - another contemporary and another historical novel. | | | In 1852, he published Henry Esmond, a three-volume novel (his only non-serial novel), set in the period of the early eighteenth century. |
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http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4356
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| | HubbleSite - Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944 - 1/3/2002 |
| | Astronomer A.D. Thackeray first spied the globules in IC 2944 in 1950. | | | HubbleSite - Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944 - 1/3/2002 | | | Globules like these have been known since Dutch-American astronomer Bart Bok first drew attention to such objects in 1947. |
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http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/2002/01/index.html
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| | Biographies: The Classical Fiction Writers: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). |
| | Augustine Birrell thought Thackeray to have written in a "lazy literary fashion"; and that, Thackeray was not careful in historical details. | | | As Thackeray set out in his preface to the work. | | | At the tender age of 6 years, William was sent away by his mother (his father had died and she had remarried). |
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http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/Thackeray.htm
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| | Feel a bit week, Mr Thackeray? |
| | If Lalu Prasad Yadav is so fond of them, he can take them to Bihar. | | | We should not tolerate this any more,” he declared. | | | Thackeray took potshots at Rahul, Gandhi who will soon marry his Colombian girlfriend, Veronica. |
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http://web.mid-day.com/news/city/2004/october/95387.htm
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| | Shivsena |
| | Two leading Marathi dailies - Maharashtra Times and Loksatta - hardly spared a word to criticise Thackeray`s stand this time. | | | He likes to talk about "Hindustan" rather than India--a habit which illustrates exactly why many Indians fear him. | | | But his posturing will add to his spiky reputation. |
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http://www.geocities.com/indianfascism/fascism/shivsena.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - 'Vanity Fair' serves up a strawberry Thackeray |
| | Thackeray's book is a commentary on British imperialism, social order and aristocracy, but much of that is lost in the film, which deals with these themes in only broad and predictable ways. | | | Fortunately, some of Thackeray's sharp wit has made its way into the screenplay in lines such as one character's assessment of Becky: "I had thought she was a mere social climber, but I see now I was wrong: She's a mountaineer." | | | Thackeray was born in Calcutta, and some of his characters spend time in India, so the creative license Nair takes makes some narrative sense. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2004-08-31-vanity-fair_x.htm
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| | Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | Anthony Trollope points out that many of Thackeray's contemporaries concluded upon reading Vanity Fair that he "was no novelist, but only a cynic." Do you agree? | | | What do you think of the preponderance of unlikable characters? | | | Why does Thackeray insist that this is a "novel without a hero"? |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679405666&view=rg
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| | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | His parents returned to England in 1817 and Thackeray was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. | | | In 1847 Thackeray published his most famous novel, | | | At first Thackeray tried to make a living as a painter but after this ended in failure he turned to journalism. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jthackeray.htm
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| | Vajpayee is the soul of BJP: Thackeray |
| | Speaking to Zee News on Friday, Thackeray described Vajpayee as the "soul of BJP." | | | He told Zee News that the recent attacks on Vajpayee were orchestrated by a handful of people who see him as a hurdle in their growth within the BJP. | | | I cannot tolerate such things in my party," Thackeray said. |
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http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/jun/26sena.htm
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| | Hindutva Leaders prepare for Civil War. Bal Thackeray, fascist Hindutva leader of the Shiv Sena, predicts Civil War in ... |
| | Compared to it, the Nagaland Rebellion, the Khalistan Movement and the Kashmir Seperatist Demand are mere dwarfs. | | | When it was pointed out that the case was being heard by a judge who was criticised by him, Thackeray refused to comment, saying it would be improper for him to comment on a sub-judice matter. | | | Commenting on the recent threat to his life by an ISI agent, Thackeray said it was not new since he was on top of the ISI hit list. |
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http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/hindutwa/htv000/blcivwar.html
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| | Custom Writing on Book review: Vanity Fair- William Thackeray |
| | Out of all of Thackeray's works Vanity Fair is the most recognisable in most literary circles and many refer to this particular piece of work as a masterpiece of literature. | | | Custom Writing on Book review: Vanity Fair- William Thackeray | | | Not much could be said about the plot of this remarkable book. |
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http://www.vipessays.com/termpaper/Book_review_Vanity_Fair_Will-152493.html
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| | Meet the woman who's not afraid of Thackeray |
| | Dolas is a thorough Sainik, proud while recalling cases registered against her for leading an anti-Mani Shankar Aiyar morcha and irascible when asked if she has a grievance against Bal Thackeray. | | | Thackeray supporters had attacked her office, she avers. | | | Meet the woman who's not afraid of Thackeray |
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| | Psychological Study of the Arts |
| | Studies in Thackeray, Stendhal, George Eliot, Dostoevsky and Conrad | | | A psychological approach to fiction; studies in Thackeray, Stendhal, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Conrad [a machine-readable transcription] |
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| | RPO -- Selected Poetry of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) |
| | Thackeray died on Christmas eve, December 24, 1863. | | | Born July 18, 1811, in Calcutta, William Makepeace Thackeray was sent to England in 1817 at his father's death. | | | Thackeray soon starting publishing novels serially under his own name. |
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| | Thackeray Expels Former State CM Rane From Shiv Sena Party |
| | Complimenting his son for performing good work for the party, Thackeray said that he would not tolerate any kind of indiscipline. | | | Answering questions in English, Marathi and Hindi, Bal Thackeray said that Rane was giving wrong statements about Shiv Sena and had no valid reasons to be angry with his son Uddhav Thackeray, the working president of the party. | | | He refrained from criticizing Bal Thackeray, but launched an attack on his son Uddhav Thackeray. |
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http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=66372&d=4&m=7&y=2005
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| | William Makepeace Thackeray Pics - William Makepeace Thackeray News - William Makepeace Thackeray Information |
| | A scheming illegitimate girl trying to claw her way up in English society. | | | Thackeray spent part of his childhood in India, but after his father's death he was sent home to go to school in England - Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, but left the University without a... | | | Click here for online texts of several of Thackeray's books, including Vanity Fair, The Rose and the Ring and The History of Henry Esmond. |
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http://www.tv.com/william-makepeace-thackeray/person/185782/summary.html
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| | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Author. | | | Vanity Fair has come down to posterity as Thackeray's most well known and best praised work. | | | Apparently begun in 1845, Vanity Fair--a name derived from a phrase in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress that allegedly occurred to Thackeray in a dream--was originally published serially in 19 monthly numbers of 20 parts (the last issue being a double one) by Bradbury and Evans, the publishers of the satirical magazine Punch. |
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http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/english/thackeray.html
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| | Little Travels and Roadside Sketches, by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | The same sentence which tells us that on earth there ought to be peace and good-will amongst men, tells us to whom GLORY belongs. | | | Little Travels and Roadside Sketches, by William Makepeace Thackeray |
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http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/thackeray_wm/little/little.html
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| | William Makepeace Thackeray -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | His ‘Vanity Fair' is the first novel in English to show a woman who is neither very good nor very bad but only very human. | | | His ‘Pendennis' is the story of an all-too-human man. In ‘The History of Henry Esmond' Thackeray blended fact and fiction into a believable historical novel; … | | | Next to Charles Dickens the greatest Victorian English novelist is William Makepeace Thackeray. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9277311
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| | Thackeray softens opposition to CAS |
| | Prasad later told that "Thackeray's suggestions will be uppermost in my mind so that roll over to CAS is smooth". | | | Prasad said he would be in constant touch with Thackeray and his son, party's executive president Uddhav Thackeray on the issue. | | | The Sena supremo had also alleged 'a London based business magnate had struck a deal with the government and they want to dump their set-top boxes in India.' |
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| | Perils of canonising Bal Thackeray |
| | Naming him for corrupt practice does not alter the character of the judgment. | | | The extracts given by the election petitioner leaves no one in doubt that Bal Thackeray and his colleagues were not expounding Hindu philosophy in the transcendental dimension. | | | By delving on Hindu religion and culture the learned judges legitimised vulgarity and cannonised Bal Thackeray as a Hindu saint. |
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http://www.pucl.org/from-archives/Religion-communalism/thackerey.htm
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| | Barry Lyndon (1975) |
| | Stanley Kubrick's beautifully opulent production takes many liberties with William Makepeace Thackeray's picaresque romance, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq (1843), narrated in the first person depicting events from the eighteenth century. | | | Ryan O'Neal is the unlikely star, and he does a good job, rising from humble Irish origins to the decadence of titled wealth, employing a two-fisted competence in the manly arts, including some soldiering, some thievery at cards and a presumed consummate skill in the bedroom. | | | In particular, Redmond Barry who becomes Barry Lyndon, is something of an admirable rake, whereas in Thackeray's novel he is a braggart, a bully and a scoundrel. |
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http://us.imdb.com/Title?0072684
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| | Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray : Arthur's Classic Novels |
| | The tall footman, number four, who had come in the place of John, cashiered, (for want of proper mollets, and because his hair did not take powder well,) had given great satisfaction to the under- butler, who reported well of him to his chie | | | (See source file for details.) This is the etext version of the book Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, taken from the original etext brlsq10.txt. | | | Title: Burlesques Author: William Makepeace Thackeray June, 2001 [Etext #2675] The Project Gutenberg Etext Burlesques, by William M. Thackeray *****This file should be named brlsq10.txt or brlsq10.zip****** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, brlsq11.txt VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, brlsq10a.txt This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. |
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http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/thack/brlsq10.html
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| | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | First book published in England, The Paris Sketch Book; A Shabby Genteel Story appears in Fraser's. | | | This extract is taken from Ina Ferris, William Makepeace Thackeray [Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983] | | | If you know any other Web sites related to the life and works of William Makepeace Thackeray, please e-mail me at matsuoka@lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp. |
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| | IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection |
| | "Works by Micael M. Clarke and John Reed explore the different visions of good and evil in the fiction of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray." | | | It gives particular emphasis to the impact of the events of his life on his writing. | | | Sites about these individual works by William Makepeace Thackeray |
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http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=tha-32
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| | William Makepeace Thackeray quotes |
| | Add the "Dynamic Daily Quotation" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy! | | | Authors > Wil Wil > William Makepeace Thackeray | | | Indian born English Author and Novelist of 'Vanity Fair', 1811-1863 |
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http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_makepeace_thackeray
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| | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | However, unlike Courbet and Millet, Thackeray did not use subtlety in his works. | | | Thackeray included his own sketches in many of his novels. | | | Thackeray, like many other bohemians, mocked the French aristocracy. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/boheme/thackeray.html
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| | William Makepeace Thackeray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Thackeray's connection with Royal Tunbridge Wells is of special interest and value from the fact that The Wells figures largely in his novel "The Virginians"; and in the "Roundabout Papers", one of his sketches, entitled "Tonbridge Toys," describes his visits here and his early and later impressions of the place. | | | William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. | | | His first visit as a boy was in 1823, when he travelled there by coach from London, arriving at a small house on the Common where his parents were staying for a time. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray
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| | Additional Reading (from William Makepeace Thackeray) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Robert A. Colby, Thackeray's Canvass of Humanity: An Author and His Public (1979), is a literary history. | | | John Charles Olmsted, Thackeray and His Twentieth-Century Critics (1977), is an annotated bibliography of British and American criticism, 1900–75; it is supplemented by Sheldon Goldfarb, William Makepeace Thackeray (1989), annotating more than 500 entries of criticism, 1975–87. | | | Additional Reading (from William Makepeace Thackeray) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-7190?tocId=7190
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| | Who will benefit from Thackeray’s arrest?- The Times of India |
| | Instead, Thackeray came down heavily on Deshmukh for taking a personal interest in the matter of his arrest. | | | Addressing a press conference at his Bandra residence on Friday, Thackeray did not utter a word against his bete noir. | | | Is Thackeray making it amply clear to Advani that the Sena would back him in case of change of guard in New Delhi? |
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=25700497
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| | CNN.com - Indian court drops charges against Hindu politician - July 25, 2000 |
| | Thackeray's supporters had threatened blood would flow on Bombay's streets if he were arrested. | | | "Long live Thackeray," his supporters chanted as the police officers surrounded him outside his home. | | | Vajpayee shuffled his Cabinet during the weekend because of disputes among his ministers about how to react to Thackeray's case. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/south/07/25/india.hindupolitician.ap
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| | The Hindu : Front Page : Thackeray blasts Sonia, Pawar |
| | Thackeray made his first public appearance in Thane this evening, after ill-health kept him out of campaigning for the October 13 Assembly elections. | | | Wearing dark glasses and a shimmering saffron shawl, the Shiv Sena leader reserved his ire for Sharad Pawar and Sonia Gandhi. | | | Over the 50,000 people who came to hear him today were not disappointed. |
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http://www.hindu.com/2004/10/10/stories/2004101011511200.htm
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| | Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Hubble snaps stunning view of Thackeray's Globules |
| | These globules were first found in IC 2944 by astronomer A.D. Thackeray in 1950. | | | These dense, opaque dust clouds - known as "globules" - are silhouetted against nearby bright stars in the busy star-forming region, IC 2944. | | | Although globules like these have been known since Dutch-American astronomer Bart Bok first drew attention to such objects in 1947, little is still known about their origin and nature, except that they are generally associated with large hydrogen-emitting star-formation regions, called "HII regions" due to their glowing light of hydrogen gas. |
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http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0201/04hubble
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