{"product_id":"vanity-fair-a-novel-without-a-hero-modern-library-classics","title":"Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (Modern Library Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA marvelous  incisive social satire that gleefully exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars through its tracing of the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women. It is a comic masterpiece that still resonates today.  \"Re-reading Vanity Fair  one realises what a brilliant innovation this was in the English novel \" remarked V. S. Pritchett. \"Thackeray is like the modern novelists who derive from James and Proust  in his power of dissecting (and of desiccating!) character.\"  Generally considered to be his masterpiece  Vanity Fair is Thackerays resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled \"A Novel Without a Hero \" it traces the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women: the scheming opportunist Becky Sharpone of literatures most resourceful  engaging  and amoral heroinesand her foil  the faithful  naive Amelia Sedley. Thackerays subversive  comic attack on the hypocrisy and \"dismal roguery\" of an avaricious world resonates 150 years later with implications for our own times.  \"Thackeray is an urbane nineteenth-century guide and commentator in a portrait gallery that is for all time \" observed Louis Auchincloss. \"He is the restless inhabitant of a prudish age  nostalgic  discursive  anecdotal  sentimental  worldly-wise  now warning us  now making fun of us  now reproving us .... Thackerays harshest criticism of humanity is simply the point where ours commences. His perception of self-interest in every act is the ABC of modem psychology.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44950024060981,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375757260","price":59.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375757266.jpg?v=1770093010","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/vanity-fair-a-novel-without-a-hero-modern-library-classics","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}