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Thackeray (1811-1864), British writer was born in the bourgeois family, was well educated. adult inherited his father's legacy, but quickly squandered the best net, and had to fend for themselves, he first learn to draw, after been writing for newspapers and essays engage published essays, travel notes, reading notes, short stories, and he is more production writer, Portfolio as much as 35. masterpiece novel "Vanity Fair" (1847) to shape British 19th-century aristocratic bourgeois typical image, exposing their dissolute and shameless, incompetence and immorality; author calling them " for a group of extreme stupid and selfish people, desperate to all kinds of evil but warm to pursue Ukena floating interest Thackeray to start from the private life profoundly reveals the reality of the capitalist society. cynicism, the cynicism is an important feature of his novel , but his masterpieces he sometimes reveals the sad mood. novel "New York can be a Farm" (1853-1855) magnificent picture of British social life in the 19th century by size, but sentimentalism dilute the critical spirit of realism. for there is the background to the end of the 17th century bourgeois revolution in British historical novel "Henry Ice Mond" (1852). the Vanity Fair
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