Vanity Fair

A Novel Without a Hero

William Makepeace Thackeray author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Everyman

Published:26th Sep '91

Should be back in stock very soon

Vanity Fair cover

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.

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 *

ISBN: 9781857150124

Dimensions: 211mm x 135mm x 42mm

Weight: 809g

800 pages