Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a HeroOxford University Press, 1998 - 949 頁 Essentially a commentary on hypocrisy and those ethical principles to which society pays lip-service, VANITY FAIR (1847-8) is a classic epic extending from urban and rural England to Waterloo and the continental haunts of exiles. Considered one of the greatest social-satirical novels in English, this edition includes all of the author's own illustrations. |
內容
Introduction | vii |
The Composition and Publication of Vanity Fair | xxxi |
Note on the Text | xlii |
Thackeray as Illustrator | xliv |
Select Bibliography | xlvii |
A Chronology of Thackerays Life and Works | xlviii |
VANITY FAIR | 3 |
Explanatory Notes | 881 |
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