Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853260193 ISBN 13: 9781853260193

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1992

Synopsis

With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull.

Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer.

Although subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.

When Vanity Fair was published in 1848, Charlotte Brontë commented: 'The more I read Thackeray's works the more certain I am that he stands alone alone in his sagacity, alone in his truth, alone in his feeling... Thackeray is a Titan.'

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"I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
"The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in the persons of his heroes, was responding to that craving for action, strength and generosity which is a fact in all periods and all places."
--Andree Maurois"

Book Description

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year' Vanity Fair

Edition details

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1853260193
• ISBN 13: 9781853260193
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 720