The Fitz-Boodle Papers - Thackeray, William Makepeace
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This collection of satirical essays and short stories presents the fictional memoirs of George Savage Fitz-Boodle, a dandy and social observer. Thackeray, with his characteristic wit and keen social commentary, uses Fitz-Boodle to critique the manners, affectations, and pretensions of British high society. Through these humorous and often biting sketches, Thackeray exposes the absurdities of class and social ambition in 19th-century England.

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This collection of satirical essays and short stories presents the fictional memoirs of George Savage Fitz-Boodle, a dandy and social observer. Thackeray, with his characteristic wit and keen social commentary, uses Fitz-Boodle to critique the manners, affectations, and pretensions of British high society. Through these humorous and often biting sketches, Thackeray exposes the absurdities of class and social ambition in 19th-century England.
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William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. Thackeray achieved recognition with his Snob Papers, but the work that really established his fame was the novel Vanity Fair, which first appeared in serialised instalments beginning in January 1847. Even before Vanity Fair completed its serial run Thackeray had become a celebrity, sought after by the very lords and ladies whom he satirised. They hailed him as the equal of Dickens. In Thackeray's own day some commentators, such as Anthony Trollope, ranked his History of Henry Esmond as his greatest work, perhaps because it expressed Victorian values of duty and earnestness, as did some of his other later novels. It is perhaps for this reason that they have not survived as well as Vanity Fair, which satirises those values. During the Victorian era Thackeray was ranked second only to Charles Dickens, but he is now much less widely read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair, which has become a fixture in university courses, and has been repeatedly adapted for the cinema and television.