William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair, with its rich cast of characters, takes place on the snakes-and-ladders board of life. Amelia Sedley, daughter of a wealthy merchant, has a loving mother to supervise her courtship....

La magistral pelicula de Kubrick volvio a dar vigencia a una de las novelas mas cínicas de la literatura inglesa....

Dos heroínas navegan la clase alta del siglo XIX en esta novela, un ataque satírico directo al corazón de una sociedad loca por el dinero....

Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy....

One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mobile Becky Sharp and her gentle, good-hearted friend Amelia Sedley as they leave their boarding school and embark upon their lives in Vanity Fair....

Napoleon has England on edge. For the cunning and conniving Becky Sharp, it’s an opportunity to take advantage of the chaos and improve her lowly station. Her friend Amelia Sedley, a blue-blood pawn, affords Becky entrée into the moneyed class....

Barry Lyndon, first serialized in 1844, is a swashbuckling romp through the aristocratic Europe of the 18th century....

Vanity Fair features two heroines: the faithful, loyal Amelia Sedley, and the beautiful and scheming social climber Becky Sharp....

Vanity Fair is a satirical novel of manners which takes place during, and in the decade after, the battle of Waterloo in 1815. The various scenes in the novel range across Europe and England. It was first published in serial form beginning in 1847....

"Nu fik Rebecca sin hævn over disse uforskammede damer. Det var rygtedes i hotellet, at kaptajn Crawley havde ladet sine heste blive hjemme, og da...

"Der er relative snobber, og der er positive snobber. Med positive snobber mener jeg sådanne personer, som er snobbede overalt, hvor de end færdes,...

"Idet Rebecca sagde dette, faldt hun på knæ på en højst tragisk måde, tog sir Pitts barkede sorte hånd mellem sine to hænder (der var hvide og smukke...

"Mr. Sedley blinkede på en ualmindelig underfundig måde, og han så hen på Amelia, og Amelia hang med hovedet og rødmede, som kun unge damer på sytten...

This is an essay from the Favorite Essays collection....

Vanity Fair, with its rich cast of characters, takes place on the snakes-and-ladders board of life....

Like Tom Jones before him, Barry Lyndon is one of the most lively and roguish characters in English literature....

Qual è davvero il significato della parola snob, che viene introdotta e illustrata da Thackeray nel 1846?...

Un libro satirico dell'umorista Thackeray scritto nel 1838. È una satira della colonizzazione britannica dell'India, narrata come il resoconto...

A vast satirical panorama of a materialistic society and a landmark in the history of realistic fiction....

Set during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, this classic gives a satirical picture of a worldly society. The novel revolves around the exploits of Becky Sharp....