The Book of Snobs
William Makepeace Thackeray
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(, July 3, 2013)
This book is an illustrated version of the original The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray. βWhen a man has this sort of vocation it is all nonsense attempting to elude it. He must speak out to the nations; he must unbusm himself, as Jeames would say, or choke and die. 'Mark to yourself,' I have often mentally exclaimed to your humble servant, 'the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour. First, the World was made: then, as a matter of course, Snobs; they existed for years and years, and were no more known than America.β