Pendennis (World's Classics) - Softcover

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192831682 ISBN 13: 9780192831682

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1994

Synopsis

Set mainly in London's bohemian and literary underworld, Pendennis is one of the earliest and greatest of the Victorian `Bildungsromanen' - introspective novels chronicling the author's growth to maturity under a thin veil of fiction. In his introduction John Sutherland considers the parallels between Thackeray's life and that of Pendennis, and examines the changes taking place in Victorian England throughout the years of the novel, particularly during the revolutionary 1840s. This book is intended for students of English Literature or the Victorian Novel from first year of University up. General readers.

About this title

About the Author:

Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta. He studied at Cambridge, but, never a keen student, he left the University in 1830 to travel the continent. He began to study law but gave it up and squandered much of his inheritance on gambling and poor investments. He studied art in Paris, but he did not pursue that professionally either, except to illustrate his own novels.He was a successful novelist, earning the adulation of the very people he satirized. His death at 53 was unexpected.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0192831682
• ISBN 13: 9780192831682
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1068