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. When
Vanity Fair was published in 1848, Charlotte Bronte commented: 'The
more I read Thackeray'sworks the more certain I am that he stands
alone - alone in his sagacity, alone in his truth, alone in his
feeling... Thackeray is a Titan.'
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