The little white attic

This is the 6th adaptation of Anna Karenina that I’ve seen so far. For years, I had an inexplicable obsession with the story and watched it...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

 1/ The White Devil opens with a gripping word: “Banish’d!”.  Banished is Count Lodovico.  “LODOVICO […] Fortune’s a right whore;  If she g...

Among the 5 Shakespeare plays I had read before last year, As You Like It was one that I chose to read myself rather than get assigned in cl...