• 导读
  • 一幅十九世纪英国贵族资产阶级上层骄奢淫逸、勾心斗角的生活图景。

  • 内容简介
  • 此为萨克雷的一部小说,首次出版于1847至1848年之间,讽刺了十九世纪的英国。故事的主线是两个完全不同的女人的生活,以及他们的朋友和家庭。此小说现在被奉为经典。2003年,此部小说被英国广播公司列为"百部最受喜爱的小说"。聪明漂亮的利蓓加出身于贫穷的画师家庭,从小父母双亡,在平克顿女子学校受尽歧视。离校后她凭着美貌和机智,不择手段地猎取金钱,通过投机和冒险,力图挤进上流社会。几经坎坷,几度荣辱,在英国社会的名利场中,她最终还是默默无闻地度日。围绕利蓓加,小说成功地塑造了爱米丽亚、乔治、罗登、乔瑟夫、克劳莱小姐、都宾等人物的形象。原作副题是《没有主角的小说》,这里的人物不是简单化的或好或坏,他们都有着复杂而深刻的内心活动。利蓓加已成为十九世纪初期英国社会的一个女冒险家的典型。

    Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. It follows the lives of two very different women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, amid their friends and family. The novel is now considered a classic, and has inspired several film adaptations. In 2003, Vanity Fair was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel".

  • 作者简介
  • 威廉•梅克比斯•萨克雷,是一位英国小说家,最著名的作品是《名利场》,与狄更斯齐名,为维多利亚时代的代表小说家。此外还有《班迪尼斯》等。萨克雷的早期小说有的描绘上流社会各种骗子和冒险家,有的讽刺当时流行的渲染犯罪行为的小说,其中主要有《当差通信》(1838)、《凯瑟琳》(1840)、《霍加蒂大钻石》(1841)和《巴利•林登的遭遇》(1844)。  

    William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He is famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta,India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), was secretary to the Board of Revenue in the British East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864), was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company.

  • 目录
    • BEFORE THE CURTAIN
    • Chapter I Chiswick Mall
    • CHAPTER II In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
    • CHAPTER III Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy
    • CHAPTER IV The Green Silk
    • CHAPTER V Dobbin of Ours
    • CHAPTER VI Vauxhall
    • CHAPTER VII Crawley of Queen's Crawley
    • CHAPTER VIII Miss Rebecca Sharp to Miss Amelia Sedley, Russell Square, London.
    • CHAPTER IX Family Portraits
    • CHAPTER X Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
    • CHAPTER XI Arcadian Simplicity
    • CHAPTER XII Quite a Sentimental Chapter
    • CHAPTER XIII Sentimental and Otherwise
    • CHAPTER XIV Miss Crawley at Home
    • CHAPTER XV In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time
    • CHAPTER XVI The Letter on the Pincushion
    • CHAPTER XVII How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
    • CHAPTER XVIII Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought
    • CHAPTER XIX Miss Crawley at Nurse
    • CHAPTER XX In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen
    • CHAPTER XXI A Quarrel About an Heiress
    • CHAPTER XXII A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon
    • CHAPTER XXIII Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass
    • CHAPTER XXIV In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible
    • CHAPTER XXV In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton
    • CHAPTER XXVI Between London and Chatham
    • CHAPTER XXVII In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment
    • CHAPTER XXVIII In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries
    • CHAPTER XXIX Brussels
    • CHAPTER XXX "The Girl I Left Behind Me"
    • CHAPTER XXXI In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister
    • CHAPTER XXXII In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close
    • CHAPTER XXXIII In Which Miss Crawley's Relations Are Very Anxious About Her
    • CHAPTER XXXIV James Crawley's Pipe Is Put Out
    • CHAPTER XXXV Widow and Mother
    • CHAPTER XXXVI How to Live Well on Nothing a Year
    • CHAPTER XXXVII The Subject Continued
    • CHAPTER XXXVIII A Family in a Very Small Way
    • CHAPTER XXXIX A Cynical Chapter
    • CHAPTER XL In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family
    • CHAPTER XLI In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors
    • CHAPTER XLII Which Treats of the Osborne Family
    • CHAPIER XLIII In Which the Reader Has to Double the Cape
    • CHAPTER XLIV A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire
    • CHAPTER XLV Between Hampshire and London
    • CHAPTER XLVI Struggles and Trials
    • CHAPTER XLVII Gaunt House
    • CHAPTER XLVIII In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company
    • CHAPTER XLIX In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert
    • CHAPTER L Contains a Vulgar Incident
    • CHAPTER LI In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader
    • CHAPTER LII In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light
    • CHAPTER LIII A Rexcue and A Catastrophe
    • CHAPTER LIV Sunday After the Battle
    • CHAPIER LV In Which the Same Subject is Pursued
    • CHAPTER LVI Georgy is Made a Gentleman
    • CHAPTER LVII Eothen
    • CHAPTER LVIII Our Friend the Major
    • CHAPTER LIX The Old Piano
    • CHAPTER LX Returns to the Genteel World
    • CHAPTER LXI In Which Two Lights are Put Out
    • CHAPTER LXII Am Rhein
    • CHAPTER LXIII In Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance
    • CHAPTER LXIV A Vagabond Chapter
    • CHAPTER LXV Full of Business and Pleasure
    • CHAPTER LXVI Amantium Irae
    • CHAPTER LXVII Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths
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