Vanity Fair

萨克雷（1811-1863），十九世纪英国著名小说家，《名利场》是他的代表作。

出版者:Penguin Classics

作者:William Makepeace Thackeray

页数:688

出版时间:2007-9-27

价格:GBP 2.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780140620856

图书标签:William.Thackeray英文原版英文原著英国文学小说外国文学文学英国

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"Vanity Fair", Thackeray's panoramic, satirical saga of corruption at all levels of English society, was published in 1847 but set during the Napoleonic Wars. It chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family. Becky's fluctuating fortunes eventually bring her to an affair with Amelia's dissolute husband; when he is killed at Waterloo, Amelia and her child are left penniless, while Becky and her husband Rawdon Crawley rise in the world, managing to lead a high life in London solely on the basis of their shrewdness.(The chapter entitled "How to Live on Nothing" is a classic.) Thackeray's subtitle, "A Novel Without a Hero," is understating the case; his view of humanity in this novel is distinctly bleak and deliberately antiheroic. Critics of the time misunderstood the book, decrying it as (among other things) vicious, vile, and odious. But "Vanity Fair" has endured as one of the great comic novels of all time, and a landmark in the history of realism in fiction.

读后感

译自http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/books/3083101/morality-play.thtml EDWARD AVERY, Spectator Every year, when winter descends on the country, one of English literature’s great works always finds itself pulled down from my bookshelf: namely,...  

我曾经听人用"尖酸刻薄的英国老太婆"形容一位过分挑剔的朋友，才知道英国老太婆还有这样的特长。我只知道英国的老头子也是很擅长挑剔人的：热爱反讽的小说家挑剔起他们的人物来，未必会输给街边聒噪的老太婆。 反讽有机智的好处，可机智要作为点缀才好。萨克雷的机智太多太热...  

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用户评价

英文原版里读的最慢的一本了，可能是习惯了快餐文化，总觉的好拖沓。句式也是不简练。

Sheer fun of climbing to the top of vanity fair .

我想写写“关于女性的社会角色”这个话题

记不得是什么封面了。反正豆瓣上这些都不是。真的很受不了这本书，结构那么散乱，说什么描述了社会全景，没觉得。那么一段一段的，只有事后分析才有意思，当时看就一个字，烦！

买的是上外出版社版本，可惜没找到。 很厚很厚的书，很佩服自己居然就这么一天一天把书读完了，再唏嘘一下，生活不过就是一个舞台，一个vanity fair. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely its players.