251. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Thackeray’s is not the first narrator to stand in the thick mire of the world he writes. The author of The Luck of Barry Lyndon, though, was more given than most to acknowledging that the perils and privileges of a point of view cannot be dissociated from one another. When Dickens, in Bleak House, descends into the fashionable world of Lady Dedlock’s followers, he unimitably … Continue reading 251. (William Makepeace Thackeray)