Roundabout Papers: Essays from the Cornhill Magazine
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Monthly essays written for the Cornhill while Thackeray was editing it - on his own vanity, on money, on being read in America, on growing old. He talks to the reader here more directly than anywhere in the novels. This edition is bound with a gallery of 60 plates of painting, among them works by John Jackson, John Robertson Reid and Patrick Allan Fraser, and includes Part I, Part II and Part III.
Monthly essays written for the Cornhill while Thackeray was editing it - on his own vanity, on money, on being read in America, on growing old. He talks to the reader here more directly than anywhere in the novels. This edition is bound with a gallery of 60 plates of painting, among them works by...
About the author
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was an English novelist born in Calcutta. He lost his inheritance gambling and to a bank failure, worked as an illustrator and journalist in Paris and London, edited the Cornhill Magazine, and became Dickens's chief rival. His works include Vanity Fair, Pendennis, Henry Esmond, and the Roundabout Papers.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was an English novelist born in Calcutta. He lost his inheritance gambling and to a bank failure, worked as an illustrator and journalist in Paris and London, edited the Cornhill Magazine, and became Dickens's chief rival. His works include Vanity Fair, Pen...
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