Vanity Fair
A Novel Without a Hero. With an introd. by Catherine Peters
(Sprache: Englisch)
A richly comic dissection of English society during the Napoleonic Wars.
Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley together leave the shelter of Miss Pinkerton`s Academy for Young Ladies. They now inhabit the infinitely more fascinating and dangerous Vanity Fair...
Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley together leave the shelter of Miss Pinkerton`s Academy for Young Ladies. They now inhabit the infinitely more fascinating and dangerous Vanity Fair...
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A richly comic dissection of English society during the Napoleonic Wars.
Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley together leave the shelter of Miss Pinkerton`s Academy for Young Ladies. They now inhabit the infinitely more fascinating and dangerous Vanity Fair where the only standard is worldly sucess. Becky, charming and amoral, is well-fitted for the fight; when an ill-judged bowl of punch ruins her plans for marriage, her quick wits soon find a range of alternatives. But sweet and sentimental Amelia only longs for her worthless soldier lover.
Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley together leave the shelter of Miss Pinkerton`s Academy for Young Ladies. They now inhabit the infinitely more fascinating and dangerous Vanity Fair where the only standard is worldly sucess. Becky, charming and amoral, is well-fitted for the fight; when an ill-judged bowl of punch ruins her plans for marriage, her quick wits soon find a range of alternatives. But sweet and sentimental Amelia only longs for her worthless soldier lover.
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray was born on 18 July 1811 in Calcutta in India. After studying at Trinity College Cambridge he worked as a journalist and studied Art in London and Paris. In 1836 he married Isabella Shawe and they went on to have three daughters, one of whom died in infancy. He first found literary success with The Yellowplush Papers in 1837 and went on to write other works such asThe FitzBoodle Papers, Catherine, The Luck of Barry Lyndon and The Snobs of England before he published his masterpiece, Vanity Fair, in 1847. William Makepeace Thackeray died on Christmas Eve in 1863.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: William Makepeace Thackeray
- 1991, 800 Seiten, Maße: 13,5 x 20,5 cm, Leinen, Englisch
- Verlag: Everyman
- ISBN-10: 1857150120
- ISBN-13: 9781857150124
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
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
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