Vanity Fair Contributor(s): Thackeray, William Makepeace (Author) |
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ISBN: 1512128422 ISBN-13: 9781512128420 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Humorous - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 1270 |
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 8.5" W x 11" (1.29 lbs) 248 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 722 Reading Level: 12.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 66.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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?" |