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...banks are broken more easily than heads or dynasties ; and despite his own declaration that he wanted to make " a set of people living without God in the world," the book has not a plan or motive in the sense that Balzac and the moderns have understood it. For...

...fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind." Of the novel Thackeray wrote to his mother: "What I want is to make a set of people living without God in the world, greedy, pompous men, perfectly self-satisfied for the most part ; and at ease about their superior...

...Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist will abundantly repay the student. 3 How to Write Fiction, anon., p. 46. pompous men, perfectly self-satisfied for the most part, and at ease about their superior virtue." * To conceive of a character as subject to the limitations of heredity, or of environment, at once...

...who is free from vice or folly or from some petty failing. Thackeray himself declared that he meant to make " a set of people living without God in the world." He did not really do this ; yet, none the less, he has created a set of people who are always far below...

...1814-1830. Thackeray, in a letter to his mother, stated plainly the idea which he wished to embody in Vanity Fair : " What I want is to make a set of people...self-satisfied for the most part, and at ease about then- superior virtue. Dobbin and poor Brings are the only two people with real humility asT'yet: —...