William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, as the only son of Richmond Thackeray, a Collector in the East Indian Company's service. After his father died he was sent to home to England. He was educated at Charterhouse and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Thackeray abandoned his studies without taking a degree, having lost some of his inheritance of twenty thousand pounds through gambling. During 1831-33 Thackeray studied law at the Middle Temple, London, but had little enthusiasm to continued his studies. In 1833 he brought with a large heritage the National Standard, but lost his fortune a year later in the Indian bank failures and other bad investments. In 1836 he married a poor Irish girl, Isabella Shawe; they had three daughters. Thackeray returned in 1837 to London and started his career as a hard working journalist. In the 1840s Thackeray started to gain name as a writer. He died suddenly on Christams Eve 1863 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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VANITY FAIR (677 KB)
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BARRY LYNDON (278 KB)
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