Masters of Literature Thackeray (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Masters of Literature Thackeray Thackeray was a great traveller all his life; and his travels began early; for he was born in Calcutta on 18th July, 1811, and was sent, while a mere child, to England. In his infancy he saw Napoleon, as in his early manhood he saw Goethe; a certain vague cosmopolitan quality was always mixed with his experience; and it was his favourite boast that he had seen men and cities, like Ulysses. His blood and temper, however, were as English as they could well be; he inherited the huge stature and hearty love of eating and drinking of a line of Yorkshire yeomen. On his arrival in England he was finally committed by his relatives to the Charterhouse School, where he made many warm and lifelong friends, one of whom broke his nose. It is well known that Thackeray expressed a strong wish that no biography of him should be written. Yet it may be said in a sense that he broke his own rule and wrote his own biography. The biography is strewn and scattered indeed through the pages of his novels; but he is of all novelists the most autobiographical. He is the novelist of memory, that is, of the emotion of experience. And the truth about his schooldays and all his other days can be sought much more successfully in The Newcomes or The Roundabout Papers than in any such summary as this. In his later and looser writing especially, his allusions to his old school thicken like gathering shadows; it seems almost as if he would have liked to die within the school, like Colonel Newcome. As it is with his boyhood so with his youth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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