New York. 1940. Heritage Press. Reprinted Edition. Very Good in Hardcover With Slightly Discolored Boards. Illustrated with two hundred drawings made by the author for the first edition. With a note upon the text by John T, Winterrich and a notes upon the drawings by John Sloane. 759 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER - VANITY FAIR is the story of Becky Sharp, one of the most beautiful, willful, and resourcefully charming pleasure-seekers in literature. With finishing- school credentials and proper connections, Becky begins as a governess, wins the hearts of the moneyed young and old, and, in the light of presentation at court and calculated scandals, emerges a full-fledged courtesan on the Continent, living surprisingly well beyond her means. Thackeray's greatest novel is a moral tapestry of early nineteenth-century English manners, and his persistent theme is the folly of the good-at-heart, the evil of those endowed with grace and wit. Anthony Trollope called Thackeray ‘ . one of the recognized stars of the literary heaven.' V.S. Pritchett finds Thackeray ‘. the first of our novelists to catch life visually and actually as it passes in fragments before us . he is above all a superb impressionist-perhaps our greatest.' inventory #37553

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Bookseller: Zeno's (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 37553
Title: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Author: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover

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