Презентация на тему William Makepeace Thackeray

1811 in Calcutta, India

to England after the death of his father and

his school-years were not happy ones.

made a lot of friends, but left without a

degree. He visited Paris a lot and built up large gambling debts. On coming of age (21) he inherited a good fortune which made him independent and able to pay off his debts. But, unfortunately, a few years later the bank holding his money failed, and he was left penniless and needed to earn a living.

had 3 daughters born, but one died when only

8 months old.

to deteriorate and she eventually had to be put

into full-time care. This meant that in fact he had no wife but he could not re-marry.

but the exact nature of these is not known

with any certainty.

and attended art schools in London and Paris, but

it was his writing that proved to be the only thing from which he could make a living.

It was only in about the last 10 years

of his life that his financial life could be described as comfortable. Unfortunately he did not enjoy the best of health and suffered some very serious ilnesses.

aged 53.

serial form (as with Dickens) and gathered into a

book-form a year or so later. Some of his better-known works are: 1848 Vanity Fair 1849 The History of Pendennis 1852 The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon 1852 The History of Henry Esmond 1854 The Newcombes 1855 The Rose and the Ring 1858 The Virginians