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  • "He would like to have done with life and its vanity altogether--so bootless and unsatisfactory the struggle, so cheerless and dreary the prospect seemed to him."

    "Everybody is striving for what is not worth the having."

    "Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. Th ... Continue

    "He would like to have done with life and its vanity altogether--so bootless and unsatisfactory the struggle, so cheerless and dreary the prospect seemed to him."

    "Everybody is striving for what is not worth the having."

    "Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire."

    "Any person who appreciated her paid a compliment to the Major's good judgement--that is, if a man may be said to have good judgement who is under the influence of Love's delusion."

    "Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?"

    

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  • "Vanity Fair" is a sweeping epic set at the every end of the Napoleonic era, specifically the Battle of Waterloo. Though, this has less to do with military tactics and more with social conventions and hypocrisy. Thackery created the immortal, unforgettable anti-hero Becky Sharpe, his exquisitely ch ... Continue

    "Vanity Fair" is a sweeping epic set at the every end of the Napoleonic era, specifically the Battle of Waterloo. Though, this has less to do with military tactics and more with social conventions and hypocrisy. Thackery created the immortal, unforgettable anti-hero Becky Sharpe, his exquisitely characterized weapon of choice in his cutting, witty satire. Becky has captivated and frustrated readers for over a century now. Although Margaret Mitchell denies having read "Vanity Fair", fans of "Gone with the Wind" cannot fail to draw comparisons between the two scheming, spirited main characters, though the aims of the novels are very different.

    

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  • Vanity Fair

  • A wonderful Victorian satire.

    

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• ― Readingrat said on Nov 25, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.

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