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Showing posts with label William Makepeace Thackeray. Show all posts
Saturday, 3 October 2026

Cecilia: “the VOLUBLE […] are flirting, communicative, restless, and familiar, and attack without the smallest ceremony”

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1/ Evelina , Frances Burney’s first book, is an epistolary novel, but because it’s mainly composed of Evelina’s letters narrating her experi...
Wednesday, 18 May 2022

Rereading War and Peace: Vol.2, P.1-2

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1/ I can see more parallels between Tolstoy’s novel and Vanity Fair. “The unsolved problem that tormented [Pierre] was caused by hints given...
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Friday, 22 April 2022

Vanity Fair: how Thackeray gives life to “insignificant” characters

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1/ Vanity Fair is a long novel, spanning about 18 years, with lots of characters. The star, everyone would agree, is Becky Sharp, one of th...
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Sunday, 17 April 2022

Characters in Vanity Fair [Update 2]

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The two women at the centre of Vanity Fair are Rebecca (Becky) Sharp and Amelia (Emmy) Sedley, who are later Mrs Rawdon Crawley and Mrs Geo...
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Friday, 15 April 2022

Vanity Fair: “who pities a poor barber…?”

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As I’ve said before, one of the main attractions of Vanity Fair is the narrator. He can be sarcastic and cynical, he can be warm, he can be ...
Wednesday, 13 April 2022

Vanity Fair and other 19th century novels, or What Thackeray does and doesn’t do

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I don’t often talk about publishing date and settings, but in this case, it’s interesting. Vanity Fair started to be serialised in 1847 (unt...
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Sunday, 10 April 2022

The writing in Vanity Fair

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I’ve been reading, and very much enjoying, Vanity Fair .  Compared to Dickens’s, Thackeray’s prose is plainer, more straightforward. Nothing...
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