Vanity Fair

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  I love his sarcasm. Books laughing at human nature never become dated.

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  oriole said on Dec 4, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• 3 people find this helpful

  

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  This book is completly intemporal. Hooking, beautifully written and full of incidents. When I was in the middle, I thought "What else could happen now?". The characters are great and unforgettable, especially Becky, so "Sharp".
  It makes you think on your own world, and you'll find it is not so far ... (continue)

  This book is completly intemporal. Hooking, beautifully written and full of incidents. When I was in the middle, I thought "What else could happen now?". The characters are great and unforgettable, especially Becky, so "Sharp".
  It makes you think on your own world, and you'll find it is not so far from the one described on the book. We are all built upon appearance!

  I have enjoyed every page of it, and it has got 816. That's so much!

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  Ena said on Mar 18, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  For 700 pages W. Makepeace Thakaray stays witty and funny. I really enjoyed reading this book, which proves that nothing is what i seems, but tat is all that counts (not only back then during the Napoleonic Wars, but still nowadays.)
  Becky is such a egotist, but lovely character....
  Whoev ... (continue)

  For 700 pages W. Makepeace Thakaray stays witty and funny. I really enjoyed reading this book, which proves that nothing is what i seems, but tat is all that counts (not only back then during the Napoleonic Wars, but still nowadays.)
  Becky is such a egotist, but lovely character....
  Whoever enjoyed reading "War and peace" will like this one. Whoever enjoyed reading Anna Karenina, Gone with the wind etc. will like it too...

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  Kunstseidenesmaedchen said on Oct 7, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  You cannot NOT be mesmerized by Becky.

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  Linda said on Feb 27, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Can't take Tolstoy's "War & Peace" off of my head. And I miss him.
  I find the narrator's intrusiveness in "Vanity Fair" discouraging.

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  lilacwine said on Jan 10, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• Really really long story....Becky really is one of a kind....

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  Amily said on Oct 2, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Others 1008 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0199537623
• ISBN-13: 9780199537624
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Pub date: Nov 09, 2008
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding and eBook
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