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... Thackeray the first , " said Trollope , writing of his contemporaries in the Autobi- ography . Posterity has a different opinion . In his lifetime , and for three or four decades after , Thackeray divided the empire of Victorian fiction ...
... Thackeray the first , " said Trollope , writing of his contemporaries in the Autobi- ography . Posterity has a different opinion . In his lifetime , and for three or four decades after , Thackeray divided the empire of Victorian fiction ...
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... Thackeray , has become the motive of human behavior . " Wherever there was a man , he saw a snob " ; and snobbery , the jockeying for social posi- tion and the pretense to a status rather higher than the person's true one he saw as the ...
... Thackeray , has become the motive of human behavior . " Wherever there was a man , he saw a snob " ; and snobbery , the jockeying for social posi- tion and the pretense to a status rather higher than the person's true one he saw as the ...
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... Thackeray's advantage . Rationally , it is obvious that Becky is Steyne's mistress . Yet , since she is rendered quite without sexuality , Thackeray's disingenuous comment , " What had happened ? Was she guilty or not ? She said not ...
... Thackeray's advantage . Rationally , it is obvious that Becky is Steyne's mistress . Yet , since she is rendered quite without sexuality , Thackeray's disingenuous comment , " What had happened ? Was she guilty or not ? She said not ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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