Chapters include: Thackeray and the Dignity of Literature, Thackeray as a Reader and Critic of Books, Thackeray's Ballads, Thackeray and the Newgate School of Fiction, Thackeray as Artist, Thackeray and His Illustrations, Thackeray's Originals, The London of "Esmond" and "The Virginians," Some Editions of Thackeray, Thackeray and Dickens, The Cult of Thackeray, Thackeray and the Stage, Thackeray's "New Sketch Book," and Mr. Whibley on Thackeray. Includes 52 terrific full-page plates.Lewis Melville was also the author of The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray and The Thackeray Country.