Vanity Fairby William Makepeace Thackeray | |
| List(s): | "Racine Library List" "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
| Pages: | 797 |
| Year of Publication: | 1848 |
| Date Read: | 08/08/1991 |
| Notes: | In it there is, to quote Thackeray, “a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling: there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out, quacks bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinseled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers.” Through this free-wheeling melee of brilliant improvisations sail Becky Sharp, one of literature’s most resourceful, engaging and amoral characters, and Amelia Sedley, her less lustrous but more ambiguous foil. COMMENTS — Vanity Fair takes its title from the place designated as the center of human corruption in John Bunyan’s allegory, Pilgrim’s Progress. |
| My Rating: | 8 |