Everyman's Library books are great. I've just discovered them so only have a handful, but yes, they all have the literary & historical context chronologies.
I SO love Vanity Fair! The novel had the honor of being my very first e-book ever. Once I discovered that the author was an extremely slow marathoner, I began calling him William PaceMeak Thackeray.
🤔 Maybe Julian Fellowes was having some fun when he named the landowning family of Downton Abbey “Crawley”. I read VF decades ago when I may have been a bit young to appreciate Thackeray’s brilliant wordplay. I remember almost nothing beyond “nabobs” and that Becky Sharpe was a remarkably skilled flirtatious manipulator.
Vanity Fair is a location in John Bunyan's book Pilgrim's Progress. I would be interested to see your response to that book in the future. Also I have pointed this out in various places online, but I enjoy it as a fact: Becky Sharpe and Ameilia Sedley are of the same generation as Jane Austen heroines like Emma Wodehouse and the Bennet sisters.
Is there a qritique of Victorian time period? If not, is there another term for the period in terms of stylistic characteristics? Was there a reaction to realism movements in Europe in the time period? Or any kind of dialectics between Brittish literature movements and others?
I do think there should be a form of petition or initative in October to read books written in other time period, related to spring, some form of upheavals, whether in politics or in culture, about new beginnings, something that would contrast usual autumn depression or somewhat stale/boring mood. Classics/some works should not be regarded as seasonal reads, of course, but some movement idea for autumn seems excellent.v
Everyman's Library books are great. I've just discovered them so only have a handful, but yes, they all have the literary & historical context chronologies.
I've been meaning to read Vanity Fair for years, but have not acted on the impulse. Your review was just what I needed to get to it. Thanks.
I SO love Vanity Fair! The novel had the honor of being my very first e-book ever. Once I discovered that the author was an extremely slow marathoner, I began calling him William PaceMeak Thackeray.
(By the way, Americans do not count for Victober reading-although Henry James sometimes squeaks in because of his longterm connection to England.)
🤔 Maybe Julian Fellowes was having some fun when he named the landowning family of Downton Abbey “Crawley”.
I read VF decades ago when I may have been a bit young to appreciate Thackeray’s brilliant wordplay. I remember almost nothing beyond “nabobs” and that Becky Sharpe was a remarkably skilled flirtatious manipulator.
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Vanity Fair is a location in John Bunyan's book Pilgrim's Progress. I would be interested to see your response to that book in the future.
Also I have pointed this out in various places online, but I enjoy it as a fact: Becky Sharpe and Ameilia Sedley are of the same generation as Jane Austen heroines like Emma Wodehouse and the Bennet sisters.
I have to keep reminding myself that the novel takes place PRIOR to the ascension of Victoria!
Is there a qritique of Victorian time period? If not, is there another term for the period in terms of stylistic characteristics? Was there a reaction to realism movements in Europe in the time period? Or any kind of dialectics between Brittish literature movements and others?
I do think there should be a form of petition or initative in October to read books written in other time period, related to spring, some form of upheavals, whether in politics or in culture, about new beginnings, something that would contrast usual autumn depression or somewhat stale/boring mood.
Classics/some works should not be regarded as seasonal reads, of course, but some movement idea for autumn seems excellent.v
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Becky Sharpe is great. I would love to know what happened her after the end. George Osborne hate him.
William Smokecrack Thackery// W. Faceslap Thackeray// W. ShortPratt Thackeray// W. CaughtClapp Thackeray
Ohhhh wonderful. Be sure to squeeze this game into the latter third of your next party and you'll have the room in the palm of your hand!
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William Cakeeat Thackeray? William Addleburger Thackeray? Good passtime
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