Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray, Helen Small (University of Oxford)

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English

Worlds Classics
23 June 2015

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

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.' Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth and a position in society, she charms, hoodwinks, manipulates everyone she meets, rising in the world as she attaches herself to a succession of rich men. Becky's fortunes are contrasted with those of her best friend Amelia, who has none of Becky's wit and vitality but whose gentle-heartedness attracts the devotion of the loyal Dobbin. Set during the Napoleonic wars, Vanity Fair follows Becky as she cuts a swathe through Regency society. Thackeray paints a panoramic portrait of the age, with war, money and national identity his great subjects. The battle for social success is as fierce as the battle of Waterloo, and its casualties as stricken. The satire is at once biting and profound, sparing none in a clear-eyed exposure of a world on the make. Thackeray's scepticism of human motives borders on cynicism yet Vanity Fair is among the funniest novels of the Victorian age. This new edition includes all Thackeray's original illustrations.

By: William Makepeace Thackeray
Edited by: Helen Small (University of Oxford)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 193mm, Width: 123mm, Spine: 46mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198727712
ISBN 10: 0198727712
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 1008
Publication Date: 23 June 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Helen Small is the author of The Long Life (2007), winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism (2008) and the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from the British Academy (2008). For Oxford World's Classics she has edited George Eliot's The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds and The Last Chronicle of Barset. Her most recent book is The Value of the Humanities (2013).

Reviews for Vanity Fair

We are more immersed in war now than we have ever been; we experience it and are affected by it remotely even when our country isn't actively participating. By focusing on how war affects the people who aren't heroes, Thackeray has given us the greatest novel about Waterloo, and one that is just as relevant 200 years later. Telegraph online, Jonathan McAloon