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    George Cruikshank

    By William Makepeace Thackeray

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    Classic long story. According to Wikipedia: "Thackeray is most often compared to one other great novelist of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens. During the Victorian era, he was ranked second only to Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair. In that novel he was able to satirize 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 satirizes those values."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455354214
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    William Makepeace Thackeray

    William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) was a multitalented writer and illustrator born in British India. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where some of his earliest writings appeared in university periodicals. As a young adult he encountered various financial issues including the failure of two newspapers. It wasn’t until his marriage in 1836 that he found direction in both his life and career. Thackeray regularly contributed to Fraser's Magazine, where he debuted a serialized version of one of his most popular novels, The Luck of Barry Lyndon. He spent his decades-long career writing novels, satirical sketches and art criticism.

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      George Cruikshank - William Makepeace Thackeray

      GEORGE CRUIKSHANK BY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

      Published by Seltzer Books

      established in 1974, now offering over 14,000 books

      feedback welcome: seltzer@seltzerbooks.com

      Novels by William Makepeace Thackeray:

      The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan

      The Memoires of Barry Lyndon

      The Bedford-Row Conspiracy

      The Book of Snobs

      Burlesques

      Catherine

      The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh (including the Rose and the Ring)

      The Fatal Boots

      The Fitz-Boodle Papers

      Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

      George Cruikshank

      The History of Henry Esmond

      The History of Pendennis

      The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond

      John Leech's Pictures, Life, and Character

      A Little Dinner at Timmins's

      Little Travels and Roadside Sketches by Titmarsh

      Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush

      Men's Wives

      The Newcomes

      The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh

      Roundabout Papers

      The Second Funeral of Napoleon

      Vanity Fair

      The Virginians

      The Wolves and the Lamb

       * Reprinted from the Westminster Review for June, 1840.  (No 66.)

       Accusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither and thither upon the fierce waves of the crowd, bustling, shifting, struggling to keep himself somewhat above water--fighting for reputation, or more likely for bread, and ceaselessly occupied to-day with plans for appeasing the eternal appetite of inevitable hunger to-morrow--a man in such straits has hardly time to think of anything but himself, and, as in a sinking ship, must make his own rush for the boats, and fight, struggle, and trample for safety. In the midst of such a combat as this, the ingenious arts, which prevent the ferocity of the manners, and act upon them as an emollient (as the philosophic bard remarks in the Latin Grammar) are likely to be jostled to death, and then forgotten.  The world will allow no such compromises between it and that which does not belong to it--no two gods must we serve; but (as one has seen in some old portraits) the horrible glazed eyes of Necessity are always fixed upon you; fly away as you will, black Care sits behind you, and with his ceaseless gloomy croaking drowns the voice of all more cheerful companions.  Happy he whose fortune has placed him where there is calm and plenty, and who has the wisdom not to give up his quiet in quest of visionary gain.

      Here is, no doubt, the reason why a man, after the period of his boyhood, or first youth, makes so few friends.  Want and ambition (new acquaintances which are introduced to him along with his beard) thrust away all other society from him.  Some old friends remain, it is true, but these are become as a habit--a part of your selfishness; and, for new ones, they are selfish as you are.  Neither member of the new partnership has the capital of affection and kindly feeling, or can even afford the time that is requisite for the establishment of the new firm.  Damp and chill the shades of the prison-house begin to close round us, and that vision splendid which has accompanied our steps in our journey daily farther from the east, fades away and dies into the light of common day.

      And what a common day! what a foggy, dull, shivering apology for light is this kind of muddy twilight through which we are about to tramp and flounder for the rest of our existence, wandering farther and farther from the beauty and freshness and from the kindly gushing springs of clear gladness that made all around us green in our youth!  One wanders and gropes in a slough of stock-jobbing, one sinks or rises in a storm of politics, and in either case it is as good to fall as to rise--to mount a bubble on the crest of the wave, as to sink a stone to the bottom.

      The reader who has seen the name affixed to the head of this article scarcely expected to be entertained with a declamation upon ingratitude, youth, and the vanity of human pursuits, which may seem at first sight to have little to do with the subject in hand.  But (although we reserve the privilege of discoursing upon whatever subject shall suit us, and by no means admit the public has any right to ask in our sentences for any meaning, or any connection whatever) it happens that, in this particular instance, there is an undoubted connection.  In Susan's case, as recorded by Wordsworth, what connection had the corner of Wood Street with a mountain ascending, a vision of trees, and a nest by the Dove?  Why should the song of a thrush cause bright volumes of vapor to glide through Lothbury, and

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