satirist of English and world literature. His name is mentioned with Juvenal, Fr. Rable, J. Swift, M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, B. Sho and other names. V. M. Thackeray was not only a satirist, but also a writer, publicist, essayist, poet, graphic artist, caricaturist, literary critic - one of the brightest intellectuals of the artists of the Victorian era.
Attributed to the 19th century. classics of English realist literature called the rightful and true monarchs of the Victorian novel. The works depict the social, cultural, historical life of the country, the customs of various classes and castes, explore the "conditions of England", social, political and moral doctrines, personality and society relations, as Stendhal and Honore de Balzac did in France, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev in Russia.
