William Makepeace Thackeray
Thackeray was Dickens's great rival and the supreme Victorian ironist, whose Vanity Fair anatomises social climbing and moral hypocrisy with unsparing wit. His satire of the privileged classes remains sharper and more unsentimental than anything in Dickens.
Works
- Vanity FairNovel of social ambition and intrigue in Regency-era English society
- PendennisNovel following a young man's education, passion, and romantic adventures
- The History of Henry EsmondHistorical novel set in eighteenth-century England with romantic elements
- Barry LyndonNovel told as the roguish memoirs of an Irish scoundrel and soldier
- The NewcomesNovel of Victorian society and character following interconnected families
- The History of PendennisNovel following a young man's romantic education and moral awakening