On Thackeray, Vanity Fair, and Becky Sharp
July 19th was the birthday of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), author of some 30 books, though we’ve only had the wherewithal for three: We touched on The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844) in our post on Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation. I’m also acquainted with one of Thackeray’s more obscure volumes, The Book of Snobs (1848) […]