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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designIn William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, no one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.

William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible young men of Europe, set against a lucid backdrop of war and international chaos. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Carey.No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia Sedley, however, longs only for the caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is William Dobbin, devoted to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure. Set against the background of the Napoleonic wars, Thackeray's 'novel without a hero' is a lively satirical journey through English society, exposing greed, snobbery and pretension.This edition follows the text of Thackeray's revised edition of 1853. John Carey's introduction identifies Vanity Fair as a landmark in the development of European Realism, and as a reflection of Thackeray's passionate love for another man's wife.William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was born and educated to be a gentleman, but gambled away much of his fortune while at Cambridge. He trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. He was a regular contributor to periodicals and magazines and Vanity Fair was serialised in Punch in 1847-8.If you enjoyed Vanity Fair you might like Guy de Maupassant's Bel-Ami, also available in Penguin Classics.'Vanity Fair has strong claims to be the greatest novel in the English language. It is also the only English novel that challenges comparison with Tolstoy's War and Peace'John Carey

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story. David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story. David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" is arranged under three headings. "Composition and Publication History" combines modern scholarship with contemporary materials to elucidate the novel's composition and publication history and present different aspects of Thackeray's life and work. "Reception" reprints ten contemporary reviews, both published and unpublished, that suggest the tone of Vanity Fair's initial reception. "Contexts" includes materials relating to governesses, historical novels, the Battle of Waterloo and the military, bankruptcy, regency fashions, and the London landscape, all of which figure prominently in the novel. "Criticism" is a collection of nine essays written between 1900 and 1990 that reveal the developing response to Vanity Fair. William C. Brownell, David Cecil, G. Armour Craig, John Loofbourow, Peter K. Garrett, Richard Barickman, Susan MacDonald, Myra Stark, Ina Ferris, Catherine Peters, and James Phelan provide varied perspectives. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

The University of Michigan Press is proud to announce that it has assumed publication of the Thackeray Edition, the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years. This edition is the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts and relevant printed texts. It is also a concrete attempt to put into practice a theory of scholarly editing that gives new insight into Thackeray's own compositional process. Thackeray's The Newcomes, the first volume to be published by the University of Michigan Press, is best characterized by its own subtitle: "Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family." Serialized in twenty-three monthly installments in London from October 1853 through August 1855, it was Thackeray's most popular novel and endured in that popularity throughout the nineteenth century. Moreover, The Newcomes forms the major basis for most revaluations of Thackeray's achievement by feminist critics, who for the most part give Thackeray high marks for sensitivity to the position of women in Victorian society. The edition provides a clear reading text, representing the form of the work that the author produced at the time of original publication. The text is edited to correct errors and to represent authorial practice rather than publishing house conventions. Just over half of the manuscript survives: the proposed edition is based on all known manuscripts, and on the first edition when there is no manuscript. Other authorial forms of the text, whether alterations in the manuscripts or revisions in printed works, are presented in the apparatus so that the composition and revisions can be studied. Peter L. Shillingsburg is Professor of English, Mississippi State University.

The Thackeray Edition proudly announces two additions to its collection: Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The Thackeray Edition is the first full-scale scholarly edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years, and the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts and relevant printed texts. It is also a concrete attempt to put into practice a theory of scholarly editing that gives new insight into Thackeray's own compositional process.Written in 1839-40 for Fraser's Magazine, Catherine was Thackeray's first novel. Although originally intended as a spoof of the 1830s Newgate school of criminal romance, it has intrinsic merit of its own for its cynical narrator and roguish heroine, both of whom harbinger similar creations in Vanity Fair eight years later.

The Thackeray Edition proudly announces two additions to its collection: Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The Thackeray Edition is the first full-scale scholarly edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years, and the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts and relevant printed texts. It is also a concrete attempt to put into practice a theory of scholarly editing that gives new insight into Thackeray's own compositional process.The Luck of Barry Lyndon, serialized in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, is a wonderfully hard-edged advance upon Thackeray's previous writing: a tour de force dramatization at novelistic length of the moral vacuity of its first person narrator. The inner workings of this narrator are far more complicated than in earlier Thackeray writings, and are presented in a far more subtle, yet not humorless, manner. The mock-Bildungsroman aspect of the novel is brought about by the non-enlightenment of the title-figure, his failure to find a meaningful love-relationship, and his inability to discover a calling that identifies both a significant direction for his individual existence and, at the same time, an appropriate accommodation to his duties to society. Achieved in brilliant, accomplished style, Barry Lyndon is a significant and progressive experiment in narration for Thackeray.

This volume of The Snobs of England and Punch's Prize Novelists is an addition to The Thackeray Edition collection, the first full-scale scholarly edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years, and the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts and relevant printed texts. It is also a concrete attempt to put into practice a theory of scholarly editing that gives new insight into Thackeray's own compositional process. In The Snobs of England, a series of amusing satirical sketches, Thackeray provides a panoramic awareness of the many varieties of human folly, identifying snobbery not as a social attitude but as the unworthy admiration of foolish things. Punch's Prize Novelists presents a series of illustrated burlesque parodies of Thackeray's contemporary writers, including Edward Bulwer, Benjamin Disraeli, Mrs. Catherine Gore, G.P.R. James, Charles Lever, and James Fenimore Cooper. The works are edited here from a comparative study of all relevant documents: from the first published appearances to the last editions touched by the author.

The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century collects a series of engaging lectures by W. M. Thackeray on Swift, Pope, Fielding, and others---offering a rare look at this classic author's views of his forbearers. The lectures and the final essay Charity and Humour were written for an American audience (the latter published in Harper's Monthly Magazine in June 1853) and showcase Thackeray's views of American sensibilities. Compiled by means of a comparative study of all relevant documents---from the first published appearance to the last edition touched by the author---this edition is a unique achievement. This volume is the latest addition to The Thackeray Edition, a multi-volume series representing the first full-scale scholarly edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years and the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts and relevant printed texts. This series puts into practice a theory of scholarly editing that gives new insight into Thackeray's own compositional process. Other volumes from the University of Michigan Press available in the series include The Snobs of England and Punch's Prize Novelists, Catherine: A Story, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, and The History of Henry Osmond. Edgar F. Harden is Emeritus Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. He is editor of The Snobs of England and Punch's Prize Novelists and The Luck of Barry Lyndon.

The last completed novel of William Makepeace Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip tells the story of Philip Firmin, a blustering but good-hearted young man. When his mother dies, Philip becomes heir to a fortune but is estranged from his father, who proceeds to waste his son's inheritance on fraudulent speculation. Next Philip's true love casts him aside for a richer man, and he proposes to Charlotte. However, their marriage causes an immediate rift with Philip's wealthy relation Lord Ringwood. After Philip's bad temper loses him a series of positions as a journalist, things look particularly bleak. The discovery of Lord Ringwood's lost will may be Philip's last hope---but how favorably will Lord Ringwood look on him? Included in the edition are a list of manuscript alterations, a list of emendations, and a collation of historical variants as well as an extensive discussion of the editorial theory and practices. Particular attention is paid to the problems confronting any editor of Thackeray: ambiguities in his handwriting, choosing between vastly different authorial rhetorical punctuation and the semantic punctuation standard in Smith's publishing house. Other volumes in the Thackeray Edition include The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour; The Snobs of England and Punch's Prize Novelists; Catherine; The Luck of Barry Lyndon: A Romance of the Last Century. By Fitz-Boodle; The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family; and The History of Henry Esmond. Judith Law Fisher is Professor of English at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is author of Thackeray's Narrative Skepticism and the "Perilous Trade" of Authorship.

Subtitled "a novel without a hero," Vanity Fair offers an acidly satirical romp across all levels of English society during the Napoleonic wars. William Thackeray focuses on how the war affects people other than soldiers, the typical heroes. All of his characters are deeply flawed, from social climber Becky Sharp and sweet Amelia Sedley to caddish George Osborne and loyal William Dobbin. Becky, liar and hypocrite, takes center stage as one of literature's great female protagonists. Penniless, armed with only her beauty, charm, and cunning, she claws her way forward by practicing the corrupt principles of her world. Becky seduces her enemies and betrays friends with a charismatic energy that has captivated generations of readers.Regarded as Thackeray's best novel and masterpiece, Vanity Fair was published in serial form in 1847-48 in Punch and established the author's literary reputation as well as his social status and financial security. Critic A. E. Dyson acclaimed it as "one of the world's most devious novels, devious in its characterization, its irony, its explicit moralizing, its exuberance, its tone. Few novels demand more continuing alertness from the reader, or offer more intellectual and moral stimulation in return."

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Glavnoe proizvedenie Tekkereja. Nasyschennyj sobytijami, bogatyj tonkimi nabljudenijami byta svoego vremeni, proniknutyj ironiej i sarkazmom, roman "Jarmarka tscheslavija" zanjal pochetnoe mesto v spiske shedevrov mirovoj literatury. Ambitsioznaja i besprintsipnaja Rebekka Sharp stremitsja udachno vyjti zamuzh i zavoevat polozhenie v obschestve, ocharovyvaja bogatykh kholostjakov. Ona iz bednoj semi. Ee edinstvennoe nasledstvo - krasota i ostryj um. Radi dostojnogo polozhenija v svete Rebekka gotova na ljuboe kovarstvo. Ee blizhajshaja podruga - dobraja i skromnaja Emilija Sedli. Ona vljublena v egoistichnogo Dzhordzha Osborna i mechtaet stat ego zhenoj. No vozmozhny li schaste i ljubov v mire tscheslavija i poroka?

Glavnoe proizvedenie Tekkereja. Nasyschennyj sobytijami, bogatyj tonkimi nabljudenijami byta svoego vremeni, proniknutyj ironiej i sarkazmom, roman "Jarmarka tscheslavija" zanjal pochetnoe mesto v spiske shedevrov mirovoj literatury. Ambitsioznaja i besprintsipnaja Rebekka Sharp stremitsja udachno vyjti zamuzh i zavoevat polozhenie v obschestve, ocharovyvaja bogatykh kholostjakov. Ona iz bednoj semi. Ee edinstvennoe nasledstvo - krasota i ostryj um. Radi dostojnogo polozhenija v svete Rebekka gotova na ljuboe kovarstvo. Ee blizhajshaja podruga - dobraja i skromnaja Emilija Sedli. Ona vljublena v egoistichnogo Dzhordzha Osborna i mechtaet stat ego zhenoj. No vozmozhny li schaste i ljubov v mire tscheslavija i poroka?

Ambitsioznaja i besprintsipnaja Rebekka Sharp stremitsja udachno vyjti zamuzh i zavoevat polozhenie v obschestve, ocharovyvaja bogatykh kholostjakov. Ejo blizhajshaja podruga, dobraja i skromnaja Emilija Sedli, vljublena v egoistichnogo Dzhordzha Osborna i mechtaet stat ego zhenoj. No vozmozhny li schaste i ljubov v mire tscheslavija i poroka? Nasyschennyj sobytijami, bogatyj tonkimi nabljudenijami byta svoego vremeni, proniknutyj ironiej i sarkazmom, roman "Jarmarka tscheslavija" zanjal pochetnoe mesto v spiske shedevrov mirovoj literatury.

Doch spivshegosja khudozhnika i tantsovschitsy, ambitsioznaja i besprintsipnaja Rebekka Sharp stremitsja udachno vyjti zamuzh i zavoevat polozhenie v obschestve, ocharovyvaja bogatykh kholostjakov. Ona iz bednoj semi. Ee edinstvennoe nasledstvo - krasota i ostryj um. Radi dostojnogo polozhenija v svete Rebekka gotova na ljuboe kovarstvo. Ejo blizhajshaja podruga, dobraja i skromnaja Emilija Sedli, vljublena v egoistichnogo Dzhordzha Osborna i mechtaet stat ego zhenoj. No vozmozhny li schaste i ljubov v mire tscheslavija i poroka? Nasyschennyj sobytijami, bogatyj tonkimi nabljudenijami byta svoego vremeni, proniknutyj ironiej i sarkazmom, roman "Jarmarka tscheslavija" zanjal pochetnoe mesto v spiske shedevrov mirovoj literatury. Elegantnaja klassika - utonchennost, vnimanie k detaljam, prijatnye tsveta i taktilnye materialy, bezuprechnost stilja, vnutri maket s illjustratsijami. Seriju obedinjaet obschaja kartinka na koreshkakh.

"Jarmarka tscheslavija" - glavnoe proizvedenie Tekkereja, v tsentre vnimanija pisatelja - ljudi lzhivye i porochnye. Avtor polagal, chto v dobrote net nichego udivitelnogo, a vot zlo ochen ljubopytno i interesno izuchat. Kak eto ni paradoksalno, imenno na fone melochnosti i egoizma personazhej Tekkereja naibolee jarko i vypuklo vygljadjat idealy dobrodeteli. Sovremenniki Tekkereja sochli roman skandalnym do neprilichija, no eto ne pomeshalo avtoru mgnovenno posle ego vykhoda stat znamenitym. Pisatel govoril, chto ego roman - bez geroja, v osnove povestvovanija lezhit istorija Bekki Sharp, gotovoj na vse, chtoby vybitsja iz nischety i stat bogatoj, respektabelnoj svetskoj damoj. Vse te ukhischrenija, na kotorye idet khitroumnaja Bekki, chtoby dobitsja zhelaemogo, i sejchas vesma v khodu. Nesluchajno "Jarmarka tscheslavija" byla i ostaetsja odnim iz samykh populjarnykh v mire proizvedenij.Perevodchik: Djakonov Mikhail