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Thackeray

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Thack·er·ay  (thk-r, thkr), William Makepeace 1811-1863.
British writer whose novels, including Vanity Fair (1847-1848), explore the ethical and social pretensions of largely amoral Victorian characters.
Thacker·ay·an adj.
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Noun1.ThackerayThackeray - English writer (born in India) (1811-1863)
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Thackeray was fond of such open disguises, and liked to greet his reader from the mask of Yellowplush and Michael Angelo Titmarsh, but it seems to me this was in his least modern moments.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
You open a book and try to read, but you find Shakespeare trite and commonplace, Dickens is dull and prosy, Thackeray a bore, and Carlyle too sentimental.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
(They preferred those about peasant life, because of the descriptions of scenery and the pleasanter sentiments, though in general they liked novels about people in society, whose motives and habits were more comprehensible, spoke severely of Dickens, who "had never drawn a gentleman," and considered Thackeray less at home in the great world than Bulwer--who, however, was beginning to be thought old-fashioned.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
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