Vanity Fair: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)

ISBN-13: 9781847497963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 800 str.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Opis

Woven into the climactic events of the Napoleonic Wars, and set against a backdrop of gaudy elegance and cut-throat personal ambition, Vanity Fair is an epic and sweeping satire, and a landmark of English literature." This edition contains extra material for students.

Recenzje

I can only wonder and admire. If Truth were again a goddess, Thackeray should be her high priest. Charlotte Brontë

O autorze

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63) was an English novelist best known for Vanity Fair, a satirical portrait of English society that is considered one of the crowning achievements of Victorian literature.