Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
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...
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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.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780785772965 (0785772960)
Publish date: July 1st 1983
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Pages no: 657
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
19th Century,
English Literature
Ich möchte diese Rezension mit einem meiner Lieblingszitate aus dem Buch beginnen: Ein vornehmes Publikum wird es ebensowenig vertragen, eine abenteuerliche Schilderung des Lasters zu lesen, wie eine wirklich feingebildete Engländerin oder Amerikanerin es dulden würde, dass das Wort "Hosen" vor ih...
Es ist das erste Buch, was wir in unserem Buchclub gemeinsam im November lesen wollten. Wollten... Zu aller Mann Verteidigung: es lässt sich nicht so lockerflockig weglesen, wie wir uns das vermutlich alle vorgestellt haben. Ich habe es immerhin innerhalb von 8 Wochen geschafft...uff. Worum geht es ...
Vanity Fair is a big surprise for me. I was expecting a story about the trial and tribulations of a couple of plucky lady friends what I discovered was a witty, satirical novel that made me laugh several times, engaged my attention always and even moving at times.On the surface Vanity Fair is a stor...
Excessively Long Book Syndrome: It takes ages to read and it's more than a 100 years old, therefore it must be great, right? Wrong! So wrong, in this case, that the editor's claim that it "has strong claims to be the greatest novel in the English language" is laughable. It's not even the greatest su...
1. I'm not sure how I feel about William Dobbin. (He gained my respect immensely when he finally understood it's time to Have a Talk with Amelia. I do realize he is supposed to be the epitome of love, fidelity and honesty, and that Amelia's circumstances were tough, but managing one's life to such e...
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