具体描述
A marvelous, incisive social satire that gleefully exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars through its tracing of the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women. It is a comic masterpiece that still resonates today.
"Re-reading Vanity Fair, one realises what a brilliant innovation this was in the English novel," remarked V. S. Pritchett. "Thackeray is like the modern novelists who derive from James and Proust, in his power of dissecting (and of desiccating!) character."
Generally considered to be his masterpiece, Vanity Fair is Thackeray's resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero," it traces the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women: the scheming opportunist Becky Sharp—one of literature's most resourceful, engaging, and amoral heroines—and her foil, the faithful, naive Amelia Sedley. Thackeray's subversive, comic attack on the hypocrisy and "dismal roguery" of an avaricious world resonates 150 years later with implications for our own times.
"Thackeray is an urbane nineteenth-century guide and commentator in a portrait gallery that is for all time," observed Louis Auchincloss. "He is the restless inhabitant of a prudish age, nostalgic, discursive, anecdotal, sentimental, worldly-wise, now warning us, now making fun of us, now reproving us .... Thackeray's harshest criticism of humanity is simply the point where ours commences. His perception of self-interest in every act is the ABC of modem psychology."
作者简介
William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863) was born and educated to be a gentleman but gambled away much of his fortune. He was a regular contributor to periodicals and Vanity Fair was serialized in Punch in 18471848.
目录信息
I Chiswick Mall 11
II In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign 18
III Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy 29
IV The Green Silk Purse 38
V Dobbin of Ours 52
VI Vauxhall 64
VII Crawley of Queen's Crawley 78
VIII Private and Confidential 87
IX Family Portraits 97
X Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends 105
XI Arcadian Simplicity 112
XII Quite a Sentimental Chapter 128
XIII Sentimental and Otherwise 137
XIV Miss Crawley at Home 150
XV In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time 171
XVI The Letter on the Pincushion 181
XVII How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano 190
XVIII Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought 200
XIX Miss Crawley at Nurse 213
XX In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen 225
XXI A Quarrel About an Heiress 236
XXII A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon 246
XXIII Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass 256
XXIV In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible 263
XXV In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton 278
XXVI Between London and Chatham 300
XXVII In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment 309
XXVIII In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries 316
XXIX Brussels 326
XXX "The Girl I Left Behind Me" 341
XXXI In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister 351
XXXII In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War is Brought To a Close 364
XXXIII In Which Miss Crawley's Relations Are very Anxious About Her 383
XXXIV James Crawley's Pipe is Put Out 395
XXXV Widow and Mother 414
XXXVI How to Live Well on Nothing a Year 426
XXXVII The Subject Continued 436
XXXVIII A Family in a Very Small Way 452
XXXIX A Cynical Chapter 468
XL In Which Becky is Recognized by the Family 479
XLI In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors 489
XLII Which Treats of the Osborne Family 502
XLIII In Which the Reader has to Double the Cape 510
XLIV A Roundabout Chapter between London and Hampshire 521
XLV Between Hampshire and London 532
XLVI Struggles and Trials 542
XLVII Gaunt House 551
XLVIII In Which the Reader is Introduced to the Very Best of Company 561
XLIX In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert 574
L Contains a Vulgar Incident 582
LI In Which a Charade is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader 593
LII In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light 613
LIII A Rescue and a Catastrophe 625
LIV Sunday After the Battle 635
LV In Which the Same Subject is Pursued 645
LVI Georgy is Made a Gentleman 663
LVII Eothen 677
LVIII Our Friend the Major 686
LIX The Old Piano 699
LX Returns to the Genteel World 711
LXI In Which Two Lights are Put Out 718
LXII Am Rhein 733
LXIII In Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance 745
LXIV A Vagabond Chapter 759
LXV Full of Business and Pleasure 777
LXVI Amantium Irae 786
LXVII Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths 803
Afterword 823
Selected Bibligraphy 831
A Note on the Text 832
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