Download or read book Anecdote Biographies of Thackeray and Dickens (Classic Reprint) written by Making Of America Project and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Anecdote Biographies of Thackeray and Dickens The two great men to whom this little volume is de voted will pass, we may be sure, under the sharp scrn tiny of Posterity. They divided in their life-time the suf frages Of all who speak and read the English tongue; but they cannot be said to have divided it equally, for one sprang intoopopularity, a popularity which he retained to the day of his death, while the other labored long before he was recognized; his reputation was wrung from the world. They had their adherents, as Jonson and Shakes peare had theirs, and battles were fought about them, they remaining the while, let us hope, indifferent, but amused, spectators Of the fight. The biography of one has been written; the biography of the other has not. There will be no biography of Thackeray, if his wishes and the wishes of his daughters are respected. 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.