Vanity Fair

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.

出版者:Modern Library

作者:William Makepeace Thackeray

页数:768

出版时间:2001-05-08

价格:USD 7.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780375757266

丛书系列:Modern Library

图书标签:萨克雷我读

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."

读后感

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一本好书的标准在我这里就是放诸四海皆准：这故事剥去表面浮华，放在任何时代、任何国度都是一个活生生的故事——这就是本好书。 　　 　　 《名利场》便如此：任何时候、任何国家都有贫富分化，没人能一辈子一帆风顺，贫家小户的姑娘想要出人头地，中产阶级想要结识真正的...  

多年以后，我还会记得2011年这个春节。除了第一次到我们新房来的未来的丈母娘和小舅子、大姨子一家留下的印象外，还有这本厚达708页的书——《名利场》。 这本书我听说了很久，第一印象是喜欢这个书名。（我很相信，如今美国那本同名的时尚杂志恐怕就是根据这本书名来起的杂...