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One of the earliest and greatest of the Victorian Bildungsroman, this introspective novel treats London's bohemian and literary underworld and the romantic entanglements of its hero, Arthur Pendennis, with comic and uninhibited style. Son of a selfless widow, Pendennis moves from one disastrous romantic involvement to another on the fringes of the corrupt upper classes. Thackeray had slaved for ten years in this literary bohemia; the introduction considers the parallels between Thackeray's life and the novel, and examines the changes taking place in Victorian England throughout the years of the story.
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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.
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Written in 1848, this is the humorous and uninhibited story of Arthur Pendennis, the son of a selfless widow, who moves from one disastrous romantic entanglement to another. It is an introspective novel, chronicling Thackeray's own youth and growth to maturity under a thin veil of fiction.
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- PublisherOxford Paperbacks
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0192839594
- ISBN 13 9780192839596
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages1118
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