{"product_id":"9781853260193","title":"Vanity Fair","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Thackeray, William Makepeace, Knowles, Owen, Carabine, Dr. Keith \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/05\/1992,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 720 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781853260193,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Vanity Fair was published in 1848, Charlotte Brontë commented: ‘The more I read Thackeray’sworks the more certain I am that he stands alone – alone in his sagacity, alone in his truth, alone in his feeling… Thackeray is a Titan.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55944855388533,"sku":"9781853260193","price":3.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781853260193.jpg?v=1757843917","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781853260193","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}