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William Makepeace Thackeray
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Обложка William Makepeace Thackeray: The Yellowplush Papers (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (ePUB)

Charles James Yellowplush was just one of the outlandish pen-names of the young Thackeray. These five savage skewerings of society, chronicling the rising fortunes of a 19th-century footman employed by a scheming card-shark, remain classics of British comedy.

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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), a British satirical writer, also wrote magazine articles and travel books. His most devoted readers were lords and ladies, whom he satirized in his works. He is best known for his novels Vanity Fair and The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which skewer the pretensions of English high society.

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язык английский ● Формат EPUB ● страницы 268 ● ISBN 9781411441798 ● Размер файла 0.3 MB ● издатель Barnes & Noble ● опубликованный 2011 ● Загружаемые 24 месяцы ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 5862991 ● Защита от копирования Adobe DRM

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