书名：Vanity Fair 名利场 企鹅经典布面精装 Penguin Clothbound Classics

作者：William Makepeace Thackeray

出版社名称：Penguin Classics

出版时间：2013

语种：英语

ISBN：9780141199542

商品尺寸：13.6 x 5.5 x 20.4 cm

包装：精装

页数：912（以实物为准）

《名利场》主要描写女主人公在社会上受到歧视，于是利用种种计谋甚至以色相引诱、巴结权贵豪门，不择手段往上爬。这个人物并不邪恶，也不善良，但非常富有人情味，完全是时代的产物。作品辛辣地讽刺了买卖良心和荣誉的“名利场”中的各种丑恶现象，而且善于运用深刻的心理描写和生动的细节勾勒来刻画人物，是一部现实主义的杰作。

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 design

In 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.

威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷（William Makepeace Thackeray，1811—1863）

英国传奇文学家，批判现实主义文学代表人物。

五岁时父亲去世。少年时期接受贵族化教育，后进入剑桥大学，未获学位便离开学校。

靠父亲的遗产度过了一段华侈的生活，这让他洞察到权贵阶层的真实心态和生活方式。

不到二十岁就游历欧洲，在德国结识文豪歌德，到巴黎学习绘画艺术。这种散漫的游荡生活，让他觉得自己一事无成，曾再三责备自己懒散奢靡：“回首往昔，没有一天不是虚度的。”

由于萨克雷存钱的银行突然倒闭，从此不得不自谋生计，将大量精力投入文学创作。三十六岁时代表作《名利场》横空出世，萨克雷声名鹊起，成为公认的伟大天才作家。五十二岁时，创作《丹尼斯·杜瓦尔》期间因中风逝世，七千多人参加了他的葬礼。

萨克雷一生创作12部长篇小说，数十篇随笔 、短篇小说和游记，《名利场》因为如同纪录片一样揭开人性的全部真相，经久不衰，流传至今。

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.

John Carey is Professor of English at Oxford University. He has written on Dickens and Thackeray.

Review

"I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."
--Robert Louis Stevenson

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