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Title: A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930
Subjects: English literature American literature
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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y one laughed withhim. When Thackeray disapproved, he wrote satiri-cally ; and satire is not so easy to see and not so amus-ing to every one as open ridicule. Dickenss pathos,too, was much more marked than Thackerays. Forthese reasons Thackerays fame grew slowly VanityFalrIn 1847-1848 he wrote Vanity Fair. Now 1847-Thackeray greatly admired Fielding, and oddly 1848,enough, this book had somewhat the same relation toDickenss novels thatFieldings Joseph An-drews had to Pamela.Dickens always hadheroes and heroines,and they were alwaysgood. They might bethrown among wickedpeople, but they werenever led astray by badcompany. Thackeraydeclared that VanityFair had no hero. Itsheroine, Becky Sharp,is distinctly bad. Herbadness and clever-ness stand out inbolder relief from con-trast with Amelias goodness and dulness. The book isa satire on social life, but it is a kindly satire. LikeShakespeare, Thackeray has charity for every one ; andeven in the case of Becky, he does not fail to let us see
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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY18H-1863 228 ENGLANDS LITERATURE (1820-1855 how much circumstances have done to make her whatshe is. Besides novels Thackeray also wrote lectures on TheEnglish Humourists and on The Four Georges. He wroteHenry Es- some merry burlesques, one on Ivanhoe calledJfUS? Rebecca and Rowena, wherein Rowena marries 1852. \ The New- Ivanhoe but makes him wretched by her jeal-1854- ousy of Rebecca. His best novel is Henry1855. Esmond, a historical romance of the eighteenthcentury; but in The Newcomes is the character thatcomes nearest to every, ones heart, the dear old Colonelwho loses his fortune and is obliged to live on the char-ity of the Brotherhood of the Gray Friars. If Thack-eray had written nothing else, his picturing of the ex-quisite simplicity and self-respecting dignity with whichColonel Newcome accepts the only life that is opento him, would have been enough to prove his genius.This is the way he describes the Colonels death : — Just as the last bell str

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