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The incomparable Miriam Margolyes applies her story-telling and histrionic gifts to this classic satire of two young English women, one bad but clever and the other good but stupid, who come to no good during the Napoleonic Wars. The abridgers have cut a bit too much at the expense of the characterizations. Although sounding somewhat forced, Margolyes, as always, gives an excellent performance.
Vanity Fair is a story of two heroines--one humber, the other scheming and social climbing--who meet inboarding school and embark on markedly different lives. Amid the swirl of London's posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Through it all, Thackeray lampoons the shallow values of his society, reserving the most pointed barbs for the upper crust. What results is a prescient look at the dogged pursuit of wealth and status--and the need for humility.
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A deliciously satirical attack on a money-mad society, Vanity Fair, which first appeared in 1847, is an immensely moral novel, and an immensely witty one. Called in its subtitle "A Novel Without a Hero," Vanity Fair has instead two heroines: the faithful, loyal Amelia Sedley and the beautiful and scheming social climber Becky Sharp. It also engages a huge cast of wonderful supporting characters as the novel spins from Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies to affairs of love and war on the Continent to liaisons in the dazzling ballrooms of London. Thackeray's forte is the bon mot and it is amply exercised in a novel filled with memorably wicked lines. Lengthy and leisurely in pace, the novel follows the adventures of Becky and Amelia as their fortunes rise and fall, creating a tale of both picaresque and risqué. Thackery mercilessly skewers his society, especially the upper class, poking fun at their shallow values and pointedly jabbing at their hypocritical "morals." His weapons, however, are not fire and brimstone but an unerring eye for the absurd and a genius for observation of the foibles of his age. An enduring classic, this great novel is a brilliant study in duplicity and hypocrisy…and a mirror with which to view our own times.
作者簡介
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was born and educated to be a gentleman but gambled away much of his fortune while at Cambridge. He trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. He was a regular contributor to periodicals and magazines and Vanity Fair was serialised in Punch in 1847-8.
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好大一本,非常厚重,慢慢看
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送來的時候封底有輕微摺痕
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非常滿意,還會再次購買,感謝配送師傅。希望更多些大品牌質量有保證産品的促銷活動
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英語專業的,看看這種還是有用的,主要是這個是原版英文書,價格能賣到這麼便宜還是物超所值的,不過由於價格低,畢竟是平裝,所以不適閤收藏,如果喜歡收藏的請謹慎購買,但如果隻是為瞭看看原著,這樣的價格還是值得5分的。
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很喜歡的故事 愛不釋手啊
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書不錯,還沒看完,書中寫的很有現實感,生活本不易
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其實挺好的,就是時間久瞭些。。。
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1、閱讀書籍;誦讀書籍。《禮記·文王世子》:“鞦學禮,執禮者詔之;鼕讀書,典書者詔之。” 唐 韓愈《感二鳥賦》序:“讀書著文,自七歲至今,凡二十二年。”明趙震元《為李公師祭袁石寓(袁可立子)憲副》:“舞象采芹,弱冠□璐振臂,當國傢之巨艱,讀書鄙腐儒之章句。”夏丏尊葉聖陶 《文心》十四:“正是王先生的聲音,原來王先生在讀書。”
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朋友說這本英文版他初中時就讀過,正好碰上特價,我也來試試^_^