If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
   
William Makepeace Thackeray   Name:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
English
Birth:
July 18, 1811
Death:
December 24, 1863
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