Vanity Fair

A Novel Without a Hero

William Makepeace Thackeray, Catherine Peters

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Everyman Hardcovers
29 November 1991

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS

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.

By: William Makepeace Thackeray
Introduction by: Catherine Peters
Imprint: Everyman Hardcovers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 809g
ISBN: 9781857150124
ISBN 10: 1857150120
Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
Pages: 878
Publication Date: 29 November 1991
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

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 *