Vanity Fair
From Shelf: The 100 best novels written in English: the full list (Robert McCrum, The Guardian Dec 2021)
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.
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.
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Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781857150124
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