{"product_id":"vanity-fair-3","title":"Vanity Fair","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\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\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough subtitled A Novel without a Hero, \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1848, Charlotte Brontë 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\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317207474558,"sku":"NW9781853260193","price":6.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781853260193.jpg?v=1778651079","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/vanity-fair-3","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}