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Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
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Reading "Vanity Fair," as long as it runs (800 pp. in this edition), is like floating down a slow river on a beautiful summer day, where you take in the scenery in all its rich texture, splendor and variation. Thackeray is a master of dialog, narrative flow, characterization (his insights into womens' characters is amazing) and plot timing. His satire ... »
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Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics)
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I first saw the Reese Witherspoon movie a year ago, not having read the book. I was intrigued, so bought a copy, feeling quite virtuous for having bought a classic novel with the intention of reading it. It took me over a year to get around to reading it, during which time it sat on the shelf silently convicting me of my good intentions to read the c... »
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Greed, gold-digging and deception sit at the heart of "Vanity Fair." It's no joke that it's subtitled "a novel without a hero" -- William Makepeace Thackeray mercilessly skewered the pretentions and flaws of the upper class all throughout it. The result is a gloriously witty social satire.
It opens with two young women departing from a la... »
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Barry Lyndon
When one is about to take the big plunge and give oneself the trouble of making what is always -in our age of lighter reading, of course - the strenuous e... »
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Vanity Fair (Norton Critical Editions)
It's only now that I notice the subtitle "novel without a hero", and that is what struck me most about this novel- the lack of heroes. Indeed, just about... »
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The History of Henry Esmond
This is a rich, complex, but ultimately unsatisfying novel about a young man of principle making his way in the corrupt and luxurious world of the 1700's ... »
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The Book of Snobs
I usually like Thackeray's works a lot. That's why I didn't hesitate to buy this. Book of Snobs seemed to be something he wrote to break in a new pen; or ... »
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