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It's good modern TV, but a far cry from the sensation and scandal caused when William Makepeace Thackeray first serialised his Vanity Fair for the unsuspecting Punch readership in 1847-48. Then, as Lady Eastlake protested in the Quarterly Review: "The personages are too like our everyday selves to draw any distinct moral from it." Then, the point of Thackeray's fast-paced, multi-layered, and bitingly comic narrative was to confront the reader with difficult situations, where initial moral outrage at Becky's behaviour was always tempered with sympathy for her irrepressible spirit. Now we can make up our own minds with this edition of the original text, excellent value considering its 800 plus pages, useful notes and (not least) a selection of colour pics from the show. --Alan Stewart
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