Vanity Fair
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Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look out, quacks (Other quacks, plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
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Vanity fair
Phenomenal book. So well written, even though hard to read. The psychology of the characters, the changing impressions and perceptions we get of the characters, is truly exceptional.
And such vanity… such a useless crowd overall, so unbelievably self centered, it is astonishing. A remarkable read where you understand that depending on where you stand and who tells the story, and from which perspective, the conclusions of what’s right and wrong are not quite the same.