upon all those higher sentiments to which we expect the novelist to be faithful. The school of Henry James, with its emphasis on maintaining that illusion, marked a break with Thackeray's techniques. T 11 and a loving mother, had she but died ere Mr Thackeray marred her. Some later commentators have accepted this self-evaluation and seen him as a realist, but others note his inclination to use eighteenth-century narrative techniques, such as digressions and direct addresses to the reader, and argue that through them he frequently disrupts the illusion of reality. Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray wrote The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy. Thackeray saw himself as writing in the realistic tradition, and distinguished his work from the exaggerations and sentimentality of Dickens.

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