Mod Lib Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Mod Lib Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

A marvelous, incisive social satire that gleefully exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars through its tracing of the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women. It is a comic masterpiece that still resonates today.

Re-reading>Vanity Fair, one realises what a brilliant innovation this was in the English novel, remarked V. S. Pritchett. Thackeray is like the modern novelists who derive from James and Proust, in his power of dissecting (and of desiccating ) character.

Generally considered to be his masterpiece, Vanity Fair is Thackeray's resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled A Novel Without a Hero, it traces the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women: the scheming opportunist Becky Sharp--one of literature's most resourceful, engaging, and amoral heroines--and her foil, the faithful, naive Amelia Sedley. Thackeray's subversive, comic attack on the hypocrisy and dismal roguery of an avaricious world resonates 150 years later with implications for our own times.

Thackeray is an urbane nineteenth-century guide and commentator in a portrait gallery that is for all time, observed Louis Auchincloss. He is the restless inhabitant of a prudish age, nostalgic, discursive, anecdotal, sentimental, worldly-wise, now warning us, now making fun of us, now reproving us . Thackeray's harshest criticism of humanity is simply the point where ours commences. His perception of self-interest in every act is the ABC of modem psychology.

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ISBN 13	9780375757266
ISBN 10	0375757260
Title	Mod Lib Vanity Fair
Author	William Makepeace Thackeray
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2001-06-21
Number of pages	768
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