（）（） Vanity Fair (Volume 1 and 2) (Famous Works Translation Series)

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Publish Date: 2000-12-01
Features: What does Vanity Fair depict? When Marx discussed the English critical realist novelists like Dickens and Sacre, he said, "They use vivid and moving prose to expose the truths of politics and society; what all politicians, political commentators, and moralists have revealed combined is not as much as they have revealed. They depict every stratum of the middle class, from the utterly aristocratic big shareholders who despise all commerce to the small-scale brokers and the junior clerks under lawyers. Clever and beautiful Becky is born into a poor painter's family, loses both parents in childhood, and suffers discrimination at Pinkerton's Female Academy. After graduation, she uses her beauty and wit to ruthlessly pursue wealth, striving to enter high society through speculation and adventure. After numerous hardships and vicissitudes, in the of British society, she ultimately lives a life of obscurity. Around Becky, the novel successfully portrays the characters of Amelia, George, Roden, Joseph, Miss Crawley, and Dobbin. The original subtitle is A Novel Without Heroes, and the characters are not simplified as simply good or bad; they all have complex and profound inner lives. Becky has become a typical female adventurer of early 19th-century British society.