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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.
內容簡介
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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愛上閱讀,原版閱讀提高英文
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大學時期老師提到的一本書,還沒開始看。
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趕在圖書特價,英文書滿300減120,又搶瞭一個疊加券買的,雖然每本書單價都貴瞭,但總價應該還是便宜一些,口袋書,字小,但不影響閱讀
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我們每個人都想在彆人眼中是個好人,所以我們要相信世上還是好人多,以誠待人,必會得到相等的迴報。不過關鍵時候還是得靠自己,親戚隻是血緣關係上的一種描述,並不代錶它就會改變你的命運。所以也不要寄希望於彆人,親戚都幫不瞭你,還能指望誰呢?除瞭自己。隻有靠自己纔能贏尊重。
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書有點舊,來到就沒有塑封瞭。紙質還行吧,比較鴨蛋灰。
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這次打摺便宜,買瞭一堆英文原版小說,慢慢讀,很喜歡名利場這本書