[Gutenberg 7467] • The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

This collection gathers together the works by William Makepeace Thackeray in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!

Fiction:

A Legend of the Rhine

A Little Dinner at Timmins’s

Ballads

Barber Cox and the Cutting of His Comb

Burlesques

Catherine, a Story

Dr. Birch and His Young Friends

Men’s Wives

Mrs. Perkins’s Ball

Novels by Eminent Hands

Our Street

Rebecca and Rowena; A Romance Upon Romance

Roundabout Papers

Stubbs’s Calendar; or, the Fatal Boots

The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By

The Bedford-Row Conspiracy

The Book of Snobs

The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh

The Diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche

The Fitz-Boodle Papers

The History of Henry Esmond: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne

The History of Pendennis, His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy

The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond

The History of the Next French Revolution, from a Forthcoming History of Europe

The Kickleburys on the Rhine

The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman

The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a Romance of the Last Century

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush

The Newcomes, Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

The Rose and the Ring; or the History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo

The Second Funeral of Napoleon

The Story of Mary Ancel

The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan

The Virginians, a Tale of the Last Century

The Wolves and the Lamb

Vanity Fair, Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society

Non-Fiction:

An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank

John Leech’s Pictures of Life and Character

The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

The Four Georges: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court and Town Life

Travel:

Little Travels and Roadside Sketches

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo

The Irish Sketch-Book

The Paris Sketch Book

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

During the Victorian era, Thackeray was ranked second only to Charles Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair. In that novel he was able to satirise whole swaths of humanity while retaining a light touch. It also features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. As a result, unlike Thackeray's other novels, it remains popular with the general reading public; it is a standard fixture in university courses and has been repeatedly adapted for movies and television.

In Thackeray's own day, some commentators, such as Anthony Trollope, ranked his History of Henry Esmond as his greatest work, perhaps because it expressed Victorian values of duty and earnestness, as did some of his other later novels. It is perhaps for this reason that they have not survived as well as Vanity Fair, which satirises those values.

Thackeray saw himself as writing in the realistic tradition and distinguished himself from the exaggerations and sentimentality of Dickens. Some later commentators have accepted this self-evaluation and seen him as a realist, but others note his inclination to use eighteenth-century narrative techniques, such as digressions and talking to the reader, and argue that through them he frequently disrupts the illusion of reality. The school of Henry James, with its emphasis on maintaining that illusion, marked a break with Thackeray's techniques.