"Vanity Fair", Thackeray's panoramic, satirical saga of corruption at all levels of English society, was published in 1847 but set during the Napoleonic Wars. It chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a...
"Vanity Fair", Thackeray's panoramic, satirical saga of corruption at all levels of English society, was published in 1847 but set during the Napoleonic Wars. It chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family. Becky's fluctuating fortunes eventually bring her to an affair with Amelia's dissolute husband; when he is killed at Waterloo, Amelia and her child are left penniless, while Becky and her husband Rawdon Crawley rise in the world, managing to lead a high life in London solely on the basis of their shrewdness.(The chapter entitled "How to Live on Nothing" is a classic.) Thackeray's subtitle, "A Novel Without a Hero," is understating the case; his view of humanity in this novel is distinctly bleak and deliberately antiheroic. Critics of the time misunderstood the book, decrying it as (among other things) vicious, vile, and odious. But "Vanity Fair" has endured as one of the great comic novels of all time, and a landmark in the history of realism in fiction.
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0 有用 Judy 2011-06-30 12:20:10
美丽的语言 吸引人的情节 好想多看几本这样的小说啊
0 有用 阿久 2012-05-23 03:35:55
英文原版被我读了一半之后很不厚道地故意留在家里了……T_T
0 有用 亲亲Yvonne 2011-06-22 15:35:43
也许大家都活在名利场中
0 有用 Elizabeth 2008-10-23 16:16:04
记不得是什么封面了。反正豆瓣上这些都不是。真的很受不了这本书，结构那么散乱，说什么描述了社会全景，没觉得。那么一段一段的，只有事后分析才有意思，当时看就一个字，烦！
0 有用 御昭 2013-11-13 12:14:37
人性的确如此，既轻信又爱怀疑
0 有用 ahaya 2020-11-29 16:41:56
第三本英文原版，依然吃力。幸好Kindle内置的词典可以即使翻译。
0 有用 avish 2019-02-09 00:41:58
the society has produced a large chunk of Becky
0 有用 任云飞 2018-06-10 06:22:26
读了一本缩减版的内容，后期找一找有声书和完整版再来读一遍。主角B正是我们周围的每一个人，精心的往上爬，只是大家的方式不一样。反而B有太多优点和优势多数人现在都不具备。
0 有用 御昭 2013-11-13 12:14:37
人性的确如此，既轻信又爱怀疑
0 有用 阿久 2012-05-23 03:35:55
英文原版被我读了一半之后很不厚道地故意留在家里了……T_T