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Title: Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray ISBN: 0-14-143983-1 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Classic!!
Comment: As Thackeray's Vanity Fair was my first serious foray into 19th century british literature, I found it a bit daunting at first. After I acquired a rhythm for his style of writing, I quickly lost myself in the story. Never before had I read a book where so much attention was paid to detail. Everything is described eloquently. The story itself is hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time. After finishing the book, I have forced many of my friends and family to sit down and read it. They too love it, and are recommending it to their friends.
Rating: 4
Summary: Vanity Fair prys into the yearnings of an era and a culture.
Comment: William Makepeace Thackeray was a wonderfully insightful and intelligent rabble-rouser. He speaks in this tale with a very gossipy tone and spectacular wit and with elements of underlying societal truths within his text. As a modern philosopher of his own society during the Victorian era, Thackeray is utterly charming.
Vanity Fair must have been a phenomenon not unlike 'Sex and the City' which debuted some years ago on HBO television. Vanity Fair, when it was released, was done in "monthly numbers" for over one and one-half years in periodicals. Readers were drawn into the lives of Becky and Amelia and had no quips about producing their hard-earned pounds to read of what would ultimately become of the two fascinating girls. Purposely suspenseful plots "hooked" the London public. Thackeray became a star amongst the literary supreme of London. By inserting himself and his thoughts and views of England, the nature of man, war, poverty and the boastful aristocratic society into the work, he presents himself and his own opinions to the world through Vanity Fair.
This novel is as important today as it was when it was released, especially for one studying historical life as it was from day to day. We are given plain viewpoints of somewhat normal, fashionable, destitute and poverty striken women of the era. Very interesting, always charming, a splendid read--albeit a very long one.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the supreme masterpieces of the English novel genre
Comment: It is impossible to compare this to any other 19th century English novel, or to compare Thackery with Dickens, or anyone else. That being said, it's almost as if there was a Mendelian cross between the astute (and gentle) social observations of Jane Austen, and the savage and bitter analysis of human nature of Jonathan Swift.
Regarding the novel's pace, the author presents a complex, rounded view of the numerous characters, major and minor, and this couldn't have been done at a best-seller type pace. Every character is a mixture of good and evil, of weakness and strength.
This is a work to be savored for its' wisdom - and I believe there is a great deal of wisdom in the novel. Above all, I don't see how it's not possible to not be fascinated by the two female "heroines," nor to want to know what theie eventual fates are. A GREAT, PROFOUND WORK OF IMAGINATION.
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Title: Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot, Rosemary Ashton ISBN: 0141439548 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot, Terence Cave ISBN: 0140434275 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Barchester Towers (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland, Michael Sadleir, Frederick Page, Edward Ardizzone ISBN: 0192834320 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy, Alexander Theroux ISBN: 037575718X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ISBN: 0553213105 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1981 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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