With a selection of letters by Charlotte Brontë.

'Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?' No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring

Vanity fair

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La Foire aux vanités...

Mémoires de Barry Lyndon du royaume d'Irlande

William Makepeace Thackeray
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Mémoires de Barry Lyndon (originellement The Luck of Barry Lyndon) est à la fois une autobiographie fictive et un roman picaresque, historique, satirique et d'aventures de l'écrivain britannique William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). Cette ouvre s'inspire en grande partie de la vie d'un personnage réel, l'aventurier irlandais Andrew Robinson Stoney.

L'histoire couvre la période allant de 1745 environ jusqu'à 1814, année de la mort du héros. Bien que la vie de Barry s'étale sur l'ensemble de la seconde moitié du siècle et même au-delà, le récit se concentre sur les vingt-cinq années allant du départ de Barry de son Irlande natale (1759-1760) à sa chute ignominieuse deux ans après la mort de son fils (1785-1786). Le livre raconte l'histoire d'un « rogue », c'est-à-dire d'une canaille, imbu de lui-même jusqu'à la naïveté, dénué de scrupules, vaniteux et vantard, prêt à tout, jusqu'à la pire brutalité, pour parvenir à ses fins. C'est à lui, convaincu d'être le meilleur et le plus grand des hommes, que l'auteur a confié les clefs de la narration, point de vue, oil, oreille, voix, lui et les événements qu'il vit se donnant à voir et entendre tels qu'il les considère. Thackeray, cependant, a l'art de ridiculiser la société par son intermédiaire et, dans le même temps, de dessiner une critique en creux du personnage ; aussi Barry apparaît-il à la fois comme l'objet et l'agent de sa satire.
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Barry Lyndon

A masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature's best-loved characters, Becky Sharp.

 Ruthless social climber and irrepressible anti-hero Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her position in Society, from impoverished orphan to woman of means. Clever, lively and resourceful, Becky is the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered yet good-natured girl from a wealthy family.

 As both women pursue love and life in London, against the background of the Napoleonic Wars, Thackeray paints a vivid portrait of decadent Regency England and satirises its corruption and flaws to delightful effect.

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray es uno de los escritores de habla inglesa más destacados del siglo XIX. Novelista de la escuela realista, se caracteriza por la ironía y sátira en sus libros, con descripciones detalladas de sus personajes. Él mismo introduce "Catalina" con estas palabras: No creemos sea imprescindiblemente necesario, para la finalidad de nuestra novela, seguir rigurosamente cuantas aventuras ocurrieron a Catalina desde que abandonó el mesón y se convirtió en amante del capitán: porque aunque sería fácil y justo probar cómo ella, siguiendo al elegido de su corazón, no hacía más que ceder a un inocente impulso, y permaneciendo durante un determinado lapso de tiempo con él probaba más que suficientemente el arraigo y la profundidad del afecto que por él experimentaba; aun cuando nosotros pudiéramos presentar elocuentísimas disculpas por los errores que ambos cometieron, tales argumentos y descripciones podrían desagradar profundamente al lector, aparte de que ya le han sido anteriormente presentadas...

Catalina

As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out, quacks (OTHER quacks, plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. Yes, this is VANITY FAIR; not a moral place certainly; nor a merry one, though very noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before he sits down to dinner with his wife and the little Jack Puddings behind the canvas. The curtain will be up presently, and he will be turning over head and heels, and crying, "How are you?"

A travers l'histoire de deux amies de collège, la bonne et naïve Amelia et l'intelligente et perverse Becky, W. M. Thackeray donne à voir une immense fresque qui conduit le lecteur des salons anglais du début du dix-neuvième siècle au champs de bataille de Waterloo pendant l'ère victorienne. Il y préconise de violer tous les principes moraux que la société fait semblant de respecter.

La Foire aux Vanités

Set against the backdrop of the Waterloo campaign during Napoleon's Hundred Days, Vanity Fair tells the story of two very different women: Rebecca (Becky) Sharp and Amelia Sedley. Their education complete, Becky and Amelia set out into the world, where their lives follow different paths from a moral, social, and material perspective. Becky's beauty, wit, and will take her far until her selfish, self-serving behaviour sets her adrift, while Amelia, whose goodness defines her, finds her patience and endurance tested as poverty becomes the defining struggle of her existence. Vanity Fair, which takes its title from a chapter in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, remains William Makepeace Thackery's masterpiece, and has inspired many film adaptations over the years, including the 2004 Mira Nair-directed version starring Reese Witherspoon as the indomitable Becky. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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