Vanity Fair
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (780 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1537667130 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 802 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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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."--Andreé MauroisFrom the Hardcover edition.. "I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare as D'Artagnan
"Re-considering "Vanity Fair"" according to Dr. DP. Re-reading this great Victorian masterpiece for the first time in many years, I am thoroughly enjoying the wise and witty narrative perspective.As with most of the great Victorian masters, Thackeray is sadly neglected in most American universities. This PC-snub is so unfortunate an so unfair--the novel is endlessly entertaining.. "Smart satire" according to capegirlnoshoes. Probably the best thing about this novel is the scope. It doesn't just end happily ever after when the protagonists get married, it goes on and on until everything is totally resolved. The satire is cutting and very smart, and is all about how the European society of the time is full of vanity. Various characters are more or less caught up in it.It gets only Smart satire Probably the best thing about this novel is the scope. It doesn't just end happily ever after when the protagonists get married, it goes on and on until everything is totally resolved. The satire is cutting and very smart, and is all about how the European society of the time is full of vanity. Various characters are more or less caught up in it.It gets only 3 stars because there isn't all that much zing and excitement but it's still well worth reading.. stars because there isn't all that much zing and excitement but it's still well worth reading.. "Magnificent novel, frustrating edition" according to Wanda B. Red. This review concerns the Penguin edition. I'd like to agree with the previous reviewer and add to what she says. Not only are the notes at the back of the book, so you have to leaf back and forth to read them -- and not only are they referenced by chapter number rather than page number -- they also not infrequently simply send you to another note (as in, "see chapter 2, note 10" or some such). Reading the notes thus becomes a time-consuming scavenger hunt. That is so frustrating because there are a lot of time-
From London’s ballrooms to the battlefields of Waterloo, the bewitching Becky works her wiles on a gallery of memorable characters, including her lecherous employer, Sir Pitt, his rich sister, Miss Crawley, and Pitt’s dashing son, Rawdon, the first of Becky’s misguided sexual entanglements.. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair, a wonderfully satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century. “I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year,” observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest—and most appealing—women in all of literature. Scorned for her lack of money and breeding, Becky must use all her wit, charm and considerable sex appeal to escape her