THE ATHENAEUMThe Book of SnobsWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
Satire
The Book of Snobs
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textThackeray’s sketches for Punch in 1846 and 1847, sorting the snobs of England into kinds: royal, military, clerical, university, city and country. They first appeared as by “One of Themselves”, and he means it. Vanity Fair, which followed, is the same joke at the length of a novel.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 4 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #2686. In the public domain in the United States.