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Book Snobs Satirical Sketches Thackeray Collection Form Pieces

Front the Book of Snobs
Back satirical sketches by W.M. Thackeray
1846
subtitled 'by one of themselves' in punch this portrait gallery of early Victorian snobbery ranges from 'the snob royal' , 'military snobs' and clerical snobs to country snobs and 'club snobs'. although crude and repetitive in places , these sketches have a keen satirical edge.
and prefigure both the social concerns of 'Vanity Fair' a Thackeray's mature narrative stance of involved spectator , implicated in the vices he satirizes

The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair. The pieces first appeared in fifty-three weekly pieces from February 28, 1846 to February 27, 1847, as "The Snobs of England, by one of themselves", in the satirical magazine Punch. The pieces, which were immensely popular and thrust Thackeray into widespread public view, were "rigorously revised" before their collection in book form and omitted the numbers which dealt with then current political issues (numbers 17–23).[1]

The Book of Snobs

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