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'Brilliant... A most enjoyable and skilful biography' - A. N. Wilson Vanity Fair, published in serial parts in 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous 'all but at the top of the tree', he told his mother, 'and having a great fight up there with Dickens'. Behind him lay an extraordinary life - an intense, Anglo-Indian childhood, a fortune lost by his early twenties, a disastrous marriage to a wife who went mad and left him to bring up two small daughters in near penury. But his later life was no less troubled. As D.J. Taylor shows in this incisive biography, Thackeray was a complex, touchy man, acutely sensitive to criticism and fearful of the publicity that accompanied his passage through life.

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Brilliant...the most enjoyable and skillful biography I have read this year. --A.N. Wilson, @lt;i@gt;Literary Review@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Outstanding...a formidable critical and imaginative intelligence at work. --Frank McLynn, @lt;i@gt;Evening Standard@lt;/i@gt;

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D.J. Taylor was born in Norwich in 1960. He is a novelist, critic and acclaimed biographer, whose biography of Thackeray was a critically-acclaimed success and whose Orwell- The Life won the Whitbread Biography prize in 2003. His most recent books are Kept- A Victorian Mystery (a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year), Bright Young People- The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940, and the novels Ask Alice, At the Chime of a City Clock and, most recently, Derby Day.

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