{"product_id":"vanity-fair-william-makepeace-thackeray","title":"Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major TV series starring Olivia Cooke, Simon Russell Beale and Micheal Palin.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to climb to society's loftiest heights and couldn't be more different from her rich, sweet-natured schoolmate, Amelia Sedley. Their parallel lives are marked by love, lust, marriage, fortune and loss, in all their different guises, as they navigate the corrupt circus of upper-class Regency England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hailed as a literary masterpiece upon first publication, William Makepeace Thackeray's \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e has never waned in popularity and remains a highly entertaining satire of early nineteenth-century high society. This gorgeous edition includes an afterword by the prizewinning author and critic, Henry Hitchings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta in 1811. He was sent to England in 1817 and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Following a period of gambling, unsuccessful investments and a brief career as a\u003cbr\u003elawyer, he turned to writing and drawing. In 1836 he married Isabella Shawe; following the birth of their second daughter, her mental health deteriorated and she had to be permanently supervised by a private nurse. Thackeray's first novel, \u003ci\u003eCatherine\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1839-40. Following the success of\u003ci\u003e Vanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e (1847-8) he was able to devote himself to fiction, and his other notable works include \u003ci\u003ePendennis\u003c\/i\u003e (1849), \u003ci\u003eThe History of Henry Esmond\u003c\/i\u003e (1852) and \u003ci\u003eThe Newcomes\u003c\/i\u003e (1855). He also edited the commercially successful \u003ci\u003eCornhill Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, which published writers such as Tennyson, George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Thackeray\u003cbr\u003edied suddenly on Christmas Eve, 1863.\u003c\/p\u003e\nHenry Hitchings was born in 1974. He has written mainly about language and history, starting with \u003ci\u003eDr Johnson's Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e The Secret Life of Words\u003c\/i\u003e won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award, as well as seeing him shortlisted for the title of \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Young Writer of the Year. \u003ci\u003eThe Language Wars \u003c\/i\u003ecompleted what was in effect a trilogy of books about language. He is a prolific critic and has made several programmes for radio and television on subjects including Erasmus Darwin, the eighteenth-century English novel and the history of manners. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 808 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63441810719069,"sku":"K060549846","price":12.6,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/226574-6054984600001A.jpg?v=1771157349","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/vanity-fair-william-makepeace-thackeray","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}