English | November 1, 2003 | ISBN: 1593080719 | EPUB | 736 Pages | 21.7 MB
"I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year," observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, a wonderfully satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Scorned for her lack of money and breeding, Becky must use all her wit, charm and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess. From London's ballrooms to the battlefields of Waterloo, the bewitching Becky works her wiles on a gallery of memorable characters, including her lecherous employer, Sir Pitt, his rich sister, Miss Crawley, and Pitt's dashing son, Rawdon, the first of Becky's misguided sexual entanglements.
Filled with hilarious dialogue and superb characterizations, Vanity Fair is a richly entertaining comedy that asks the reader, "Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?"
Features more than 100 illustrations drawn by Thackeray himself for the initial publication.
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中译本：
穷画家的女儿蓓姬·夏普，自幼失去父母，但绝顶聪明。她以半工半读的方式从寄宿学校毕业后，由一名家庭小教师起步，牢牢抓住每一个机会，削尖了脑袋钻进维多利亚时代的上流社会，成为一颗光芒四射的交际明星。这一尤物的发迹历程，在滑铁卢战役波澜壮阔的历史大背景映衬下，展现了堪称世界文学中最成功的一个女冒险家艺术形象。萨克雷的词锋犀利，机智幽默，解剖人生精妙入微。本书问世将近一百六十年来，一直被誉为一面讽世明镜、一部警世宝典。
作者简介
萨克雷(1811-1864年)，英国19世纪杰出的批判现实主义作家。出生于印度加尔各答，6岁时被送回英国求学。成年后继承了父亲的遗产，但很快挥霍殆尽，只好自谋生路。他先学画画，后从事写作，为报刊撰稿，发表散文、游记、中短篇小说等。萨克雷是一名多产作家，作品集有35卷之多。他的早期作品多是一些幽默故事、特写和诗歌，如《巴黎杂记》、《爱尔兰杂记》等。中期开始创作批判现实主义小说，1848年发表成名作《名利场》，此书奠定了他在英国文坛上的地位，萨克雷也因此被公认为是与狄更斯齐名的英国小说家。
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