William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible young men of Europe, set against a lucid backdrop of war and international chaos. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Carey.
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 Sedley, however, longs only for the 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 William Dobbin, devoted to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure. Set against the background of the Napoleonic wars, Thackeray's 'novel without a hero' is a lively satirical journey through English society, exposing greed, snobbery and pretension.
This edition follows the text of Thackeray's revised edition of 1853. John Carey's introduction identifies Vanity Fair as a landmark in the development of European Realism, and as a reflection of Thackeray's passionate love for another man's wife.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was born and educated to be a gentleman but gambled away much of his fortune while at Cambridge. He trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. He was a regular contributor to periodicals and magazines and Vanity Fair was serialised in Punch in 1847-8. John Carey is Professor of English at Oxford University. He has written on Dickens and Thackeray.
第一眼就喜欢上荣版的名利场了 就冲入眼那个膘肥马壮,挽具锃亮 或许是更喜欢中国古典文化和文言文 荣老先生语言简练,无处不体现了他极深的文学造诣,让人拍手称赞 随便举两个例子 1、 荣如德: 失去怙恃的小劳拉马丁 杨必:没爹娘的小劳拉马丁 2、 荣:不消说,他是...
评分第一眼就喜欢上荣版的名利场了 就冲入眼那个膘肥马壮,挽具锃亮 或许是更喜欢中国古典文化和文言文 荣老先生语言简练,无处不体现了他极深的文学造诣,让人拍手称赞 随便举两个例子 1、 荣如德: 失去怙恃的小劳拉马丁 杨必:没爹娘的小劳拉马丁 2、 荣:不消说,他是...
评分我看的那个版本很老了,是杨必先生翻译的,最近才知道她是杨绛的小妹妹,从杨绛的散文的回忆里可见杨必似乎终身未婚、性格开朗、打扮时髦、擅长模仿、很受疼爱,并且,做事认真。完成这本书的翻译之后,杨必的身体就垮了,后来再也没恢复,直到在某天夜晚的睡梦中悄悄去世。 难...
评分萨克雷在十九世纪描绘了这幅浩浩荡荡的英国浮世绘,在这部没有英雄的小说里,只有名利,权势,金钱,还有为了追逐他们而丧失人性的众生相,小说的语言一贯继承了英国文学的幽默讽刺。小人物的命运被无情的投入到这个残酷及现实的名利场中,用现实主义文学的力度赤裸裸的...
评分都宾先生在全书结尾处,万念俱灰,放弃了追求了多年的爱人,不由得要拿席勒名诗《华伦斯坦》中的句子来安慰自己。刚才我一激动,也想拿这句话做签名,但是转念又想,华伦斯坦是何等人,配说这句话的我,现在大概还没出世。都宾倒是有五分资格来说这话,他亲历滑铁卢战役,一生...
作为小说平庸,对于民俗学家历史学家讽刺家更有可读之处。Amelia和Dobbin终成眷属是因为他们都同样愚蠢,而像Becky这样独立强大的女性却因为出身问题而不得不扭曲自己的野心,成为Vanity Fair割舍不掉又欲除之后快的牺牲品
评分1848 R4 narrated by SF 最后想,vanity一词真是总结了所有人
评分社会百态,亘古不变。杨必的译本也是值得与原文对比、深读。
评分购于Columbus Village Bookstore 21dollars
评分好书 但是我不是特别喜欢
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2026 book.quotespace.org All Rights Reserved. 小美书屋 版权所有