ДАВАЙТЕ ПОЧИТАЕМ В ОРИГИНАЛЕ! Vanity Fair

Today we are reading William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel “Vanity Fair”. William Makepeace Thackeray was an English author, novelist and satirist of 19th century. He gained international fame and popularity for his novel «Vanity Fair». It was first published in 1847. This novel satirizes society in early 19th-century Britain. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory cites Thackeray among the principal satirists of the nineteenth century and «Vanity Fair» as a key work. Thackeray’s satire often takes the form of irony (figurative speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said). People who hate each other address each other as “my love.“ «Vanity Fair» is not only long, it is meandering. Thackeray knows where he is taking his readers, but he is in no hurry to get them to their destination. Any slight forward movement of the plot may cause the author to stop, reflect, pontificate, digress. The story is told primarily from the point of view of a single narrator, but this narrator