
Vanity Fair
From Shelf: Bonfire of the Vanities: Scoundrels, Villains, Anti-Heroes and Complicated People
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.
RRP: £20
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781857150124