Vanity Fair

Name: Vanity Fair
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108057059
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A Novel without a Hero

Автор: William Makepeace Thackeray

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Cambridge University Press

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The quintessential satire of life in early nineteenth-century Britain, Vanity Fair is a panoramic to...

Информация за книгата

Автор

William Makepeace Thackeray

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2013

страници

722

EAN

9781108057059

ISBN

1108057055

Enbook ID

02058940

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

900

Размери

140 x 216 x 40

Пълно описание

The quintessential satire of life in early nineteenth-century Britain, Vanity Fair is a panoramic tour of English social strata, charting the rise and fall of the opportunistic Becky Sharp. Rejected by several publishers before finding a place with Bradbury and Evans, this 'novel without a hero' first appeared as a popular serial. The twenty parts were finally printed together in 1848, incorporating the author's own illustrations. Although William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) was not a debut author, this was the first of his works to bear his name on the title page; the vast scope of the novel gained him immediate critical acclaim, though reviewers often expressed misgivings about the dark portrayal of human nature. In response, Thackeray wrote that 'we are for the most part an abominably foolish and selfish people … I want to leave everybody dissatisfied and unhappy at the end of the story.'

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