The Book of Snobs

William Makepeace Thackeray

Subjects: Snobs and snobbishness -- Humor, PR, I

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Thackeray originated the modern meaning of the word snob" in a series of essays for Punch magazine, the British humor periodical. Those essays are collected in this volume. With the organizational drive of a naturalist, Thackeray classifies the varied manifestations of snobbery in society many of which remain all too common today.

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