William Makepeace Thackeray livre Mémoires de Barry Lyndon
Mémoires de Barry Lyndon (The Luck of Barry Lyndon), 1844
William Makepeace Thackeray est l'un des romanciers britanniques les plus importants de l'époque victorienne. Connu pour ses œuvres satiriques prenant pour cible la bourgeoisie britannique, il est l'auteur, entre autres, des Mémoires de Barry Lyndon, qui fut adapté par le cinéaste Stanley Kubrick et de Vanity Fair, l'un des romans-phares de la littérature anglaise. Wikipedia

William Makepeace Thackeray livre Mémoires de Barry Lyndon
Mémoires de Barry Lyndon (The Luck of Barry Lyndon), 1844
L’Histoire de Henry Esmond (The History of Henry Esmond), 1852
“He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.”
The Book of Snobs http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/snobs10.txt (1848), ch. 2.
Sorrows of Werther, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Sorrows of Werther, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 30.
William Makepeace Thackeray La Foire aux vanités
Vol. I, ch. 13.
Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
William Makepeace Thackeray livre Pendennis
Pendennis: At the Church Gate, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The History of Pendennis (1848-1850)
“I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.”
William Makepeace Thackeray livre The Virginians
Source: The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 56.
"George III"
Said by Princess Augusta to her son, George III
Four Georges (1860-1861)
William Makepeace Thackeray La Foire aux vanités
Vol. I, ch. 21.
Vanity Fair (1847–1848)