Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

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Thackeray's work is a masterpiece of English literature, and of the novel as a form. I can add little in the way of meaningful praise, except to say that I am sorry I did not read it earlier in my ...

Trying to add a little culture to my reading list, I've been working on this novel for the better part of a month. A 19th-century society story, the novel follows the lives of Rebecca Sharp and Amelia ...

January 2013 update at 70%: "Too many more chapters like the one about the Gaunts, and I'll have to give this up again. *mind numbing*" December 2012 Review At 60%, I surrender! There are some good ...

William Makepeace Thackeray, the writer of this novel was born in Calcutta and is considered to be one of the best satirist in English Literature. In this novel he has torn open the effable mask of ...

Amazing novel, I am sorry it took me so long to get around to reading it. I expected a Regency novel of manners and society, and instead I am getting a toungue in cheek mimicry of the same. To my ...

This is one of the few books I read for high school English classes that I didn't love. I detested it, actually. My lack of enjoyment reading this book is probably, in part, because I had to read it ...

Vanity Fair is sometimes called the best British novel ever written, but it's totally not. Middlemarch is way better. Honestly, VF's not even in the top ten. So why do people love it so much? Because ...

This is unprecendented: I'm giving this four stars before I've finished. Aside from the much lauded razor sharp wit, cutting social observations and poetically despicable characters, gems like this ...

First things first: Don't get this edition! I recently attended my college reunion. Whilst ambling idly around the green lawns of that hallowed institution, I had chance to encounter my most ...