TY - BOOK ID - 30752505 TI - Book of Snobs : By One of Themselves PY - 2011 SN - 1775452387 9781775452386 9781775452386 PB - Auckland, N.Z. : The Floating Press, DB - UniCat KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - English Literature KW - Snobs and snobbishness KW - Snobbery KW - Snobbishness KW - Snobbism KW - Pride and vanity UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30752505 AB - Satirical genius William Makepeace Thackeray may be best remembered for novels like Vanity Fair, but he first made his name as a writer as a contributor to magazines like Punch. In these pieces, Thackeray often mercilessly skewered the pretensions of the British upper classes. The collection Book of Snobs brings together some of Thackeray's finest work in this vein, and it's a must-read for fans of witty humor writing. ER -