Talk:Vanity Fair

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It'd be better the have a facsimile of the original title page than a modern book cover. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.156.49.248 (talk • contribs) 17:09, 13 July 2005

[edit] Sharing the letter I've referenced

"my object...is to indicate, in cheerful terms, that we are for the most part an abominably foolish and selfish people 'desperately wicked' and all eager vanities. Everybody is you see in that book,--for instance if I had made Amelia a higher order of woman there would have been no vanity Dobbins falling in love with her."

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"I want to leave everybody dissatisfied and unhappy at the end of the story--we ought all to be with our own and all other stories. Good God don't I see (in that maybe cracked and warped looking glass in which I am always looking) my own weaknesses wickednesses lusts follies shortcomings?...We must lift up our voices about these and howl to a congregation of fools: so much at least has been my endeavour."

WLM

I've typed this out in the interests of allowing others to review my new section.

Lotsofissues 08:56, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where are all my favorite characters?

I couldn't help missing little Rawdon, the O'Dowds, Lady Jane, etc., but I think it would get too confusing and boring to just plug them into the somewhat blow-by-blow plot summary we have at the moment - maybe if it got revised a lot and gave a less complete account of the main characters. But does anyone else feel their absence, or is it just my POV? Candle-ends 20:21, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Becky's European wanderings

I made a minor change in the description of Becky's difficulties in staying one step ahead of her reputation. Steyne hounds her out of Rome, but it's just ordinary gossip that drives her from place to place, because too many people know about what happened, even if only second-hand. Anyway, Steyne dies in 1830, so he can't hound her for very long. Thackeray says: "Whenever Becky made a little circle for herself with incredible toils and labour, somebody came and swept it down rudely, and she had all her work to begin over again." (p. 818, OUP 1983 edition). Serandou 09:41, 27 May 2007 (UTC)