Vanity Fair
Official ITV tie-in edition
$21.64
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2018
Summary
The classic novel of ‘villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing’, soon to be a major new ITV series from the producers of Poldark, Victoria and And Then There Were None.
William Makepeace Thackeray’s witty literary classic Vanity Fair is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows anti-heroine and ruthless social climber Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751574302 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0751574309 |
| Author: | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 450g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 43mm |
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Critics Review
Vanity Fair has strong claims to be the greatest novel in the English language – John Carey
One of fiction’s great female protagonists … a bravura performance by a writer who has found his theme - Guardian
A Titan … a purely original mind - Charlotte BronteThe greatest novel about Waterloo, and one that is just as relevant 200 years later - TelegraphVanity Fair has strong claims to be the greatest novel in the English language - John CareyAbout The Author
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta in 1811. On his way to England from India, the small Thackeray saw Napoleon on St Helena.
In 1837, Thackeray came to London and became a regular contributor to Fraser’s Magazine. From 1842 to 1851, he was on the staff of Punch, and this was when he wrote Vanity Fair, the work which placed him in the first rank of novelists. He completed it when he was thirty-seven.
In 1857, Thackeray stood unsuccessfully as a parliamentary candidate for Oxford. In 1859 he took on the editorship of the Cornhill Magazine. He resigned the position in 1862 because kindliness and sensitivity of spirit made it difficult for him to turn down contributors.
Thackeray drew on his own experiences for his writing. He had a great weakness for gambling, a great desire for worldly success, and over his life hung the tragic illness of his wife Isabella, with whom he had three daughters, one dying in infancy.
Thackeray died December 24, 1863. He was buried in Kensal Green, and a bust by Marochetti was put up to his memory in Westminster Abbey.
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