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The Reading Report of Vanity Fair Student number: The author: Thackeray William Makepeace was an English journalist, novelist, famous for his novel VANITY FAIR (1847-48), a tale of middle-class families in London. Most of Thackerays major novels were published as monthly serials. Thackeray studied in a satirical and moralistic light to describe middle-class English life .He was once seen as the equal of his contemporary Dickens. William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta in 1811. His parents returned to England in 1817 and Thackeray was educated at HYPERLINK http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/EDcharterhouse.htm Charterhouse and Trinity College, HYPERLINK http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITcambridge.htm Cambridge. His father was an officer of the East India Company. When he was 4 years old, his father died and a wealthy merchant became his stepfather who always moved in polite society. However, Thackeray became addicted to gambling and left Cambridge in 1830 without a degree and heavily in debt. And then he began writing. Thackeray moved to Paris where he became the French correspondent for the radical newspaper The Constitutional. When The Constitutional ceased publication, Thackeray moved back to England and began contributing articles to a wide variety of newspapers and journals, including HYPERLINK http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRtimes.htm The Times, HYPERLINK http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jchronicle.htm The Morning Chronicle, Frasers Magazine and HYPERLINK http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jpunch.htm Punch Magazine.  And Thackeray began writing novels and in 1844 Frasers Magazine serialized Barry Lyndon. Because of life experience about moving in upper society and knowing the rules very much, in 1847 Thackeray published his most famous novel, Vanity Fair. This was followed by The History of Henry Edmonds (1852), New comes (1853) and The Virginians (1857). Although a successful novelist, Thackeray continued to write articl