Vanity Fair

[altariel]

Thank you everyone who recommended Vanity Fair on my Big Read Poll: I finished it this morning over breakfast and thought it was an absolute hoot. You are all very wise, o my flisters.

Comments

[tyellas.livejournal.com]

Yay! I re-read it myself after our discussion. Can't...help...rooting...for...Becky....

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Vanity Fair's one of the books I've been put off reading through sheer enormousness. I don't think it helps that I've got the old Wordsworth Classics edition, which looks like a gray brick.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

:) I first read it in my first year at Uni, it's one of the ones I then kept to reread...

People think classic=dull, but there's a reason they became classic, after all.

[trixieleitz]

I did acquire myself a copy after reading that discussion, but I haven't read it yet. Looking forward to it, though :)

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

o.o. Look what I found on Wikipedia about his folks:

Anne Becher (1792–1864) was the second daughter of Harriet and John Harman Becher, also a writer for the East India Company. They sent Anne abroad in 1809, telling her that the man she loved, Henry Carmichael-Smyth, had died. This was not true, but her family wanted a better marriage for her than with Carmichael-Smyth, a military man. She married Richmond Thackeray on 13 October 1810. The truth was unexpectedly revealed in 1812, when Richmond Thackeray unwittingly invited to dinner the supposedly dead Carmichael-Smyth. After Richmond's death, Henry Carmichael-Smyth married Anne in 1818 and they returned to England the next year.

My mind is blown! Anyway, yay on your liking the book; must dig it out again.

[uitlander]

Hurrah! Another convert to the wonderful world of Becky Sharp.

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

I am far too fond of Becky Sharp, although Dobbin is the 19th-century equivalent of what would be called an adorable woobie in modern fangirl parlance.

(Philip Glenister is very good in that role in the 1998 BBC mini-series; there's even an excellent fanvid for his character in that screen adaptation somewhere out there.)