![]() ![]() Well, it does for the first 350 pages (it’s a long book – 746 pages) and then becomes bogged down in digressive passages so dull I can’t remember what they are about (Lord Steyne’s genealogy?). Thackeray writes with verve his humour sparkles off the page and dances through the absurdities of life in Vanity Fair. Like all the greats – Shakespeare, Trollope, Austen, Dickens – all human nature is here. ![]() Thackeray hated Regency styles so gave all his characters 1840s clothes, which was a bit jarring at first because I loved empire styles, but the writing carried me through.Īh, the writing. I still have the book – it’s a 1901 edition given to me by my father, who was an antiquarian bookdealer, illustrated with the charming line drawings done by Thackeray himself. The facsimile frontispiece from my 1901 copy of Vanity Fair ![]()
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