William Makepeace Thackeray has always been an author for those with discriminating literary palates. Few would deny that he is the finest literary stylist of his time. This is the first 'sampler' which covers all of Thackeray's versatile genius: his cartoons, his journalism, his carefully restrained sentimentally (much to Victorian taste), his cutting satire, his essayism and what one could grandly call the Thackerayan world view.