William Makepeace Thackeray

Gebundenes Buch

Vanity Fair (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Beschreibung

Vanity Fair follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. The two women are ostensibly friends, who are always in opposition to one another.

Autor

William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. Thackeray achieved recognition with his Snob Papers, but the work that really established his fame was the novel Vanity Fair, which first appeared in serialised instalments beginning in January 1847. Even before Vanity Fair completed its serial run Thackeray had become a celebrity, sought after by the very lords and ladies whom he satirised. They hailed him as the equal of Dickens. In Thackeray's own day some commentators, such as Anthony Trollope, ranked his History of Henry Esmond as his greatest work, perhaps because it expressed Victorian values of duty and earnestness, as did some of his other later novels. It is perhaps for this reason that they have not survived as well as Vanity Fair, which satirises those values. During the Victorian era Thackeray was ranked second only to Charles Dickens, but he is now much less widely read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair, which has become a fixture in university courses, and has been repeatedly adapted for the cinema and television.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Engage Books
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1148g
• ISBN-13: 9781774766545
• ISBN-10: 177476654X
• Artikelnr.: 66925250