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Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)

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UPC:
9780140437539
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Mass Market Paperback
Publication Date:
2002-02-26
Release Date:
2002-02-01
Author:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Language:
english
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This is Thackeray's rich and gloriously chaotic sketch of English society during the Napoleonic wars. At the centre of this picture is the scheming and disreputable Becky Sharp, one of Thackeray's greatest creations. The style here is fast-paced and comic, but the character of Dobbin and his unrequited love for Amelia bring depth and pathos to the novel. Dobbin, the unheroic hero, is Thackeray's realistic answer to the hero-worship of high romanticism. The novel stands as a landmark in the development of European Realism.