Vanity Fair
A Novel Without a Hero
$47.53
- Hardcover
800 pages
- Release Date
29 November 1991
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857150124 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857150120 |
| Author: | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 800 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 1991 |
| Weight: | 809g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 135mm x 42mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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Critics Review
There are no wholly admirable characters, but you can’t help feeling a sort of twisted respect for the gloriously awful social climber Becky Sharp, and a bit of sympathy for the lumpen, love-struck Dobbin. In fact all the characters are alive in their awfulness, and it’s no small measure of skill that Thackery can make the reader care so much about such ghastly people. I suppose part of the appeal is that their weaknesses and pretensions are still recognisable today. * Amazon *
About The Author
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray was born on 18 July 1811 in Calcutta in India. After studying at Trinity College Cambridge he worked as a journalist and studied Art in London and Paris. In 1836 he married Isabella Shawe and they went on to have three daughters, one of whom died in infancy. He first found literary success with The Yellowplush Papers in 1837 and went on to write other works such as The FitzBoodle Papers, Catherine, The Luck of Barry Lyndon and The Snobs of England before he published his masterpiece, Vanity Fair, in 1847. William Makepeace Thackeray died on Christmas Eve in 1863.
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