{"product_id":"9781853260193","title":"Vanity Fair","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Thackeray, William Makepeace, Knowles, Owen (University of Hull), Carabine, Dr Keith (University of  \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 May 1992 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Wordsworth Classics' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 720 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 126 x 38 | 460g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 Bronte 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":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39941748555963,"sku":"9781853260193","price":3.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9781853260193.jpg?v=1713559094","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.live\/products\/9781853260193","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}