Vanity fair

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With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor:

William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863

Typ dokumentu:

Knihy

Rozsah:

951 s. ;

Vydáno:

Ware : Wordsworth, 1994

Vydání:

Repr.

Edice:

Wordsworth classics

Témata:

romány

Popis jednotky:

Úplné a nezkrácené vyd.

Fyzický popis:

951 s. ; 18 cm

ISBN:

1-85326-019-3