Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)

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:0

出版时间:2002-02-26

价格:USD 8.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780140437539

Among the vibrant cast of characters who scheme and scramble for life's prizes in this entertaining saga, no one is better equipped than Becky Sharp, Thackeray's supreme creation. Brilliant, alluring, and ruthless, she defies her poverty-stricken background to climb the social ladder, while her sentimental companion Amelia longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of English society during the Napoleonic wars, military and domestic battles are fought and fortunes are made and lost. Amid the fast-paced comic action stands Dobbin, a true gentleman in a corrupt world, whose unrequited love for Amelia brings pathos and depth to Thackeray's epic satire.

This edition includes a new introduction, a chronology of Thackeray's life and works, a select reading list, and an appendix containing parodic material Thackeray cut from the 1853 edition.

读后感

I like the name of the novel Vanity Fair and the subtitle A Novel without a Hero. That’s the reason why I choose to read this one. In some ways, I feel like Thackeray was trying to encompass his century as a whole, not just the very specific...  

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...  

I like the name of the novel Vanity Fair and the subtitle A Novel without a Hero. That’s the reason why I choose to read this one. In some ways, I feel like Thackeray was trying to encompass his century as a whole, not just the very specific...  

此书的英文版，是上年头就买了。冲着杨必的名气看了几页中文，觉得还可以，就买了英文版来读。结果中途多次读不下去，多次放下不想看，可是最后咬咬牙看完了。很少看小说看得那么纠结郁闷。 不少人对此书的赞誉很高，不过大部分都是看杨必的中文版。不得不说，的确翻译得不错...