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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.
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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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上大學時聽老師講過這本書《名利場》,當時就很想讀瞭
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但壓力有點大,太長瞭
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愛上閱讀,原版閱讀提高英文
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很不錯的一本書,值得大傢購買
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很好
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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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商品外包裝不夠好,箱子大小剛好閤適,但裏麵書籍還是有摺損瞭,書脊和封底有颳蹭,從環保角度考慮應該放入箱子前,給所有書籍套一張厚一點的保護紙之類的防護膜。薩剋雷的巨著,真實反映瞭當下人追名逐利的狀態。
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書是好書,就是在運輸過程中損壞瞭。想換貨卻缺貨。京東售後服務很好,給予瞭補償。
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是正貨,很好的質量。喜歡原文書,趁活動時買的。