Издательство: | Wordsworth |
Дата выхода: | май 2005 |
ISBN: | 1-85326-019-3 |
Объём: | 694 страниц |
Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. 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.