I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming, `` O Gogol, O Chekhov, O Thackeray and Dickens, what would you have made of a bomb shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks, a birdbath, and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps ''??

Keshav Thackeray was a progressive social activist and writer who was against caste biases and played a key role in the Samyukta Maharashtra Chalwal ( literally, United Maharashtra Movement ) in the 1950s to form the Marathi-speaking state of Maharashtra with Mumbai as its capital.

One contemporary who tried to bridge the gap, William Makepeace Thackeray, established a tentative cordial relationship in the late 1840s only to see everything collapse when Disraeli took offence at a burlesque of him which Thackeray penned for Punch.

Title-page to Vanity Fair, drawn by Thackeray, who furnished the illustrations for many of his earlier editions.

In The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a novel serialised in Fraser's in 1844, Thackeray explored the situation of an outsider trying to achieve status in high society, a theme which he developed more successfully in Vanity Fair with the character of Becky Sharp, the artist's daughter who rises nearly to the heights by manipulating the other characters.

Other writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Goethe, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, Gérard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, A. S. Byatt and Angela Carter.

William Makepeace Thackeray in Fraser's Magazine ( February 1844 ) pronounced the book, " a national benefit and to every man or woman who reads it, a personal kindness.

* A. David Thackeray ( 1910 – 1978 ), an astronomer who was the director of the Radcliffe Observatory in South Africa

An early rival to Dickens was William Makepeace Thackeray, who during the Victorian period ranked second only to him, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for

* Fowler also quoted from one Thackeray who wrote about a boxing match: " At the sixth round, there were almost as many fellows shouting out ' Go it, Figs ', as there were youths exclaiming ' Go it, Cuff '.

His harshest critic was Augustus Moore, who wrote " God help English literature when English people lay aside their Waverley novels, and the works of Defoe, Swift, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and even Charles Reade for the penny dreadfuls of Mr Haggard "; adding, " The man who could write ' he spoke to She ' can have no ear at all ".

Literary figures associated with the town are Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( who spent some months living in a cottage in the town after his marriage to Sarah Fricker ), William Makepeace Thackeray ( a frequent guest of the Elton family at Clevedon Court ), and George Gissing ( The Odd Women is set in the town ).

The book was not well received by critics, who complained of its discursive nature and poor character development ; William Makepeace Thackeray published a particularly scathing review.

In Hong Kong, Bond suspects and is led to a wealthy British shipping magnate, Guy Thackeray, who he catches cheating at mahjong at a casino in Macau.

The play sets its context ( not to be performed ) with an epigram by William Makepeace Thackeray, from his novel Pendennis, contained in a frontispiece: It starts: " Which is the most reasonable, and does his duty best: he who stands aloof from the struggle of life, calmly contemplating it, or he who descends to the ground, and takes his part in the contest?

Burnand had a very large circle of friends and colleagues who included William Makepeace Thackeray, Mark Lemon and most writers, dramatists and actors of the day.

Also present was the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, who subsequently wrote an anti-capital punishment essay, On Going to See a Man Hanged.

Major Pendennis ' remark ( in the novel " Pendennis " by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray ) that he had read nothing of the novel kind for thirty years except Paul de Kock, who certainly made him laugh, is likely to remain one of the most durable of his testimonials, and may be classed with the legendary question of a foreign sovereign to a Frenchman who was paying his respects, Vous venez de Paris et vous devez savoir des nouvelles.

From 8 January 1993 at least there is no doubt that the Shiv Sena and Shiv Sainiks took the lead in organizing attacks on Muslims and their properties under the guidance of several leaders of the Shiv Sena from the level of Shakha Pramukh to the Shiv Sena Pramukh Bal Thackeray who, like a veteran General, commanded his loyal Shiv Sainiks to retaliate by organised attacks against Muslims.

Further, the riots appeared to solidify the image of Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray who scathingly criticised the judiciary.

He was the friend of many contemporaries, including Thackeray ; his reputation is based on the two volumes of essays, Horae Subsecivae ( Leisure Hours ) ( 1858, 1861 ), John Leech and Other Papers ( 1882 ), Rab and His Friends ( 1859 ), and Marjorie Fleming: a Sketch ( 1863 ).

Twelfth Night Theatre opened with two productions: A Flea In Her Ear by Georges Feydeau directed by Joan Whalley and The Rose and the Ring based on the work of William Makepeace Thackeray.

Co-starring: Reese Witherspoon,: Jim Broadbent, and: James Purefoy, the movie was based on the 19th century novel by: William Makepeace Thackeray and it was directed by: Mira Nair.

Uddhav Thackeray () ( born 27 July 1960 ) is the executive president of the Shiv Sena, a right-wing, Marathi ethnocentric regional political party based in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Also notable among the later novels is The History of Henry Esmond, in which Thackeray tried to write a novel in the style of the eighteenth century.

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847 – 48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain.

The novel is considered a classic of English literature, though some critics claim that it has structural problems ; Thackeray sometimes lost track of the huge scope of his work, mixing up characters ' names and minor plot details.

Though Thackeray does not settle definitively whether Becky murders Jos, such a development is in keeping with the overall trend of character development in the novel.

In a Thackeray novel, when a character asks his wife " Why don't you ask some of our old friends?

* Catherine, a serial novel by William Makepeace Thackeray

* Highbury is mentioned in Vanity Fair, the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray ; in chapter 4, the Sedleys are said to be going " to dine with Alderman Balls, at Highbury Barn.

The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in serial form in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy.

The Newcomes is an novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1855.

It has also been used as the basis of a romance by Léon de Wailly ( 1838 ) and it prompted the novel contributed by Anne Isabella Thackeray to the Cornhill Magazine in 1875 entitled “ Miss Angel ”.

Steele plays a minor role in the novel The History of Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray.

The Victorian period was the golden age of the realistic English novel, represented by Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters ( Charlotte, Emily and Anne ), Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.

This is concluded by the sonnet, A Farewell to Arms, quoted by Thackeray in the seventy-sixth chapter of The Newcomes and which served as the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel of the same name.

Chesterfield appears in the 1757-1758 novel The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray.

There are some aspects of the relationship between Sophia and the prince that William Thackeray may have had in mind in the novel Vanity Fair regarding Becky Sharp possibly killing Joseph Sedley.

* William Makepeace Thackeray mentions her in his novel Vanity Fair.

They bought the property and named it " Bareacres " after the character Lord Bareacres in Vanity Fair ( novel ) by Thackeray.

* Amelia Sedley in Vanity Fair ( novel ) by William Thackeray

Thackeray dedicated to him his novel The Adventures of Philip, and one of his ballads, Jacob Omnium's Hoss, deals with an incident in Higgins's career.

Descriptions of the demimonde can be found in Vanity Fair, a novel which satirizes 19th century society written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

William Makepeace Thackeray was a visitor to the court during Sir Charles's time and it was the inspiration for the house Castlewood which featured in his novel The History of Henry Esmond although, contrary to common belief, it is improbable that he wrote any of it at Clevedon Court.

This bloody duel was made immortal by William Makepeace Thackeray in his novel The History of Henry Esmond.