Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)

About Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)

With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull 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. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.

Published:	05 Jan 1998
Pages:	720
Publisher:	Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN 13:	9781853260193
ISBN 10:	1853260193