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- Published on: 1900
- Binding: Paperback
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By Martin Grundy
"Vanity Fair" represents London society in the early years of the 19th century. Thackeray's work describes the greed, hypocrisy, selfishness and rigid class structure that existed before and after the battle of Waterloo, from the perspective of twenty years later.I found the author's technique very patchy. He will sometimes skip ahead without warning so that you think you must have missed a page, but then he flashes back to fill in the gap. He will often spend a long time detailing a very tedious event (such as the latest fad of charades) that unfortunately has little meaning to the modern reader. His style is frequently to address the reader directly and also to name individuals who are presumably his friends, as if they were reading the story too.The vast majority of the characters are fictitious and are given unusual names that are intended to amuse. Unfortunately, all but one of them are distinctly unlikeable and the single exception is by no means always present in the narrative. The rather dreary effect of this is often to be reading about people for whom you have no sympathy whatsoever. (I prefer a central character who I can "root" for throughout.)The interesting parts of the book to me concerned the manners of the day (in particular different ways of shaking hands) and the unremittingly imposed class structure. The number of references to a variety of horse-drawn means of transport are legion and there are many items of vocabulary that have since fallen out of use, and in my case, recognition.Thackeray expects his readers to have a passing acquaintance with the French, German and classical languages, so there are several foreign language phrases that go untranslated and therefore unexplained. This is quite irritating.The eBook itself is of good quality with only a handful of misprints.Do read this novel if you value sarcasm, enjoy bitterness, hatred and failure, and have sympathy with the weakness of all mankind. Only at the end does it evolve into a story worth reading, but you have to wade through reams of unpleasantness to get there.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Susannah B (SusieB)
I first read 'Vanity Fair' - William Makepeace Thackeray's witty, ironic and highly enjoyable social satire set (mostly) in Regency England and focusing on the adventures of the bold, amoral, manipulative and ambitious Becky Sharpe - many years ago, and I have been meaning to re-read it for some time; however, with so many unread books awaiting me on my bookshelves it somehow seemed an indulgence to hunt out my old copy of this novel and spends hours reading it. A solution presented itself in the form of the Audible version which I could download and listen to whilst commuting or getting on with work at home. Unfortunately - or so it seemed at first - I downloaded the abridged version by mistake; however, once I started listening to Jane Lapotaire's enthusiastic rendition of the story and finding myself thoroughly enjoying it (as well as the short, apposite pieces of music inserted between sections of the text), I decided that for this 'rereading' of the novel it didn't matter hugely that it was an abridged version. However, if you want the whole 'Becky Sharpe experience' and all of the additional little subplots in this story, then you do need to read/listen to the unabridged version (and it is such an entertaining novel that it is certainly worth the time spent on it) but if, like me, you have read it before and just want to revisit it, or if you really haven't the time at the moment to embark on a novel with nine hundred or so pages, then this abridged version, which gives a real flavour of this wonderful story, is a good one to opt for.5 Stars.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Martin Jones
Novels originally developed from morality tracts designed to teach readers right from wrong. In its own beautifully twisted way, Vanity Fair follows in this tradition. The title of the book derives from Bunyan’s Pilgrim's Progress, an allegorical Christian journey leading from worldly sin to heavenly virtue. The difference with Vanity Fair is that when readers take its moral journey, they climb aboard a white knuckle roller coaster, with crazy loops showing up where down should be. The story’s virtuous characters find good intentions leading to bad ends, while the vices of darker characters can ironically work to bring about good outcomes. Make no mistake, this novel is unflinching. People of a sentimental bent may feel that everyone always deserves the kindness of a second or third chance. Well if you think that, read Vanity Fair. The portrayal of Rebecca will put you right, and persuade you that occasionally a person comes along who is constitutionally without empathy, who enjoys manipulation for the sake of it, and is adept at hiding their nature by aping the appearance of respectability. To someone like Rebecca, the quality of seeing the best in everyone is a weakness to be exploited. Reader beware.
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