Vanity Fair
$43.08
- Hardcover
912 pages
- Release Date
24 April 2013
Summary
Thackeray’s gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition.
Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141199542 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141199547 |
| Author: | William Thackeray, John Carey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 912 |
| Release Date: | 24 April 2013 |
| Weight: | 1.02kg |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 137mm x 53mm |
| Series: | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
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Critics Review
“I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare [as D’Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly.”–Robert Louis Stevenson
“The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in the persons of his heroes, was responding to that craving for action, strength and generosity which is a fact in all periods and all places.”–Andreé Maurois
About The Author
William Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was born and educated to be a gentleman but gambled away much of his fortune while at Cambridge. He trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. He was a regular contributor to periodicals and magazines and Vanity Fair was serialised in Punch in 1847-8.
John Carey is Professor of English at Oxford University. He has written on Dickens and Thackeray.
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