Websites
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Everything you ever wanted to know about our favorite repressed ancestors, brought to you by Brown University. This links to the page on Thackeray.
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General info from the Victorian Web about the East India Company and how it basically owned India.
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Lean about Napoleon from the BBC.
Movie or TV Productions
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Atrocious nonsense starring Reese Witherspoon. Don't see this one. Or if you do, don't think you've learned anything about the actual novel.
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This BBC miniseries is about as good as the adaptations get. There's no narrator, which is a bummer, because he's half the novel, but at least they stick to the plot and keep the characters.
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From the title you can tell they played up the histrionics a bit.
Historical Documents
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So you don't have to type out long quotations.
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A New York Times article about Thackeray's work from 1853. (PDF file)
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This is where Thackeray first worked out how social climbing and class rank works. It's hilarious.
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Thackeray's very funny short story about a valet who lucks out in the stock market and makes a gentleman of himself. Great stuff.
Video
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A reading of Thackeray's funny poem summarizing the plot of a sentimental German novel.
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Apparently this entire movie is online, in nine parts on YouTube
Images
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Take a look at Thackeray.