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Краткое содержание: Ярмарка тщеславия
- Чтение: 8 мин.
- 10 parts
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Becky Sharp hurls a dictionary out of a carriage and sets out to climb London society on her wits alone.
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Ярмарка тщеславия — кратко о книге
Краткое содержание: 8 min на чтение
- Время чтения
- Около 19 h 50 min15 h 45 min fast, 23 h 40 min slow
- Длительность
- Слов: 283 800
- Уровень в библиотеке
- Сложное чтение long sentences, a rich vocabulary
- Первая публикация
- 1847by Уильям Мейкпис Теккерей
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Ярмарка тщеславия in short
Vanity Fair follows two women who leave the same school on the same day. Amelia Sedley is kind, trusting and loved. Becky Sharp is poor, brilliant and alone.
What Ярмарка тщеславия is about
Picture a family coach pulling away from a girls' school at Chiswick. A young woman leans out and flings a dictionary back into the garden. This is Becky Sharp, nineteen, poor, clever and finished with being grateful to people who look down on her.
Vanity Fair was written by William Makepeace Thackeray and came out in monthly parts in the late 1840s. It follows two friends through the years of Napoleon, Waterloo and the long peace. One is gentle, loving and rich. The other has only her wits. A showman narrator calls them puppets, then keeps stepping in to comment.
Для кого. This is for readers who love sharp social comedy, schemers and survivors, big casts of vivid characters, and a narrator who winks at you. It suits anyone curious about money, marriage and ambition in Regency England.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A showman warns you that life is a fair
The book opens before the story does. A manager sits before a curtain and looks out over a noisy fairground where people eat, cheat, court and quarrel. He calls it Vanity Fair and says it is neither a moral place nor a merry one.
He sells his show like a man selling tickets. He lists his puppets as dolls on a stall. The Becky puppet is flexible at the joints, the Amelia doll is carved with care, and the Dobbin figure looks clumsy but dances naturally. A thoughtful visitor to a fair, he says, goes home more sober than merry.
The narrator keeps stepping out to talk to you. He tells you Amelia is no heroine, because her cheeks are too round and red. Later he calls the book a novel without a hero, and he means it.
You are asked to watch the puppets and notice when you laugh at something that should make you wince. The laughter comes first, and the sting follows a page later.
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Becky leaves school with nothing but wits
The story starts at Miss Pinkerton's academy on Chiswick Mall.
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Becky aims her first shot at Jos
Amelia has an older brother, Joseph Sedley, home on leave from India, where he collects taxes.
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Amelia loves George and Dobbin loves Amelia
To understand Dobbin, the narrator takes you back to Dr. Swishtail's school.
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Becky wins a place at Queen's Crawley
Becky's week ends with no proposal, because Jos loses his nerve after a drunken night at Vauxhall.
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Money ruin pulls two families apart
While Becky climbs, the Sedleys fall.
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Brussels and Waterloo test everyone's nerve
News arrives that the regiment is ordered to Belgium, because Napoleon has escaped and is raising an army.
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Rebecca rises and lives well on nothing a year
After the war, Becky and Rawdon spend several years in Paris, where she moves in high society and he gambles.
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The Fair worships money and rank
Thackeray's main subject is how people treat money and titles.
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How the book is told, and what to watch for
Thackeray tells his story in the voice of a showman who has seen the Fair many times.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Becky Sharp A penniless, quick-witted orphan who uses charm and cunning to rise from governess to the edge of high society.
- Amelia Sedley A gentle, loving girl from a rich London family who gives her whole heart to one man and cannot see his faults.
- William Dobbin A clumsy, loyal army officer who has loved Amelia for years and expects nothing in return.
- George Osborne A handsome, vain young officer, betrothed to Amelia, who likes admiration and spends money freely.
- Joseph Sedley Amelia's stout, shy brother, a tax collector in India who is proud of his waistcoats and afraid of women.
- Rawdon Crawley A dashing, slow-witted cavalry captain who gambles well, adores his clever wife and hopes to inherit his aunt's fortune.
- Miss Crawley A rich, sharp-tongued old lady who enjoys cleverness and whose money is the target of every relative.
- Lord Steyne A powerful, cynical nobleman who becomes Becky's patron and watches her climb with amusement.
How it ends (spoiler)
Becky's schemes eventually fail and she drifts across Europe, down on her luck, until she meets Jos and Amelia again. Amelia learns the truth about George and finally lets Dobbin in. They marry, and Dobbin gets the happiness he waited years for. Jos dies, and Becky, now respectable on the surface, benefits from his insurance money and gives to charity. The showman packs up his puppets.
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Вопросы о книге Ярмарка тщеславия
What is Vanity Fair about?
It follows two friends, the gentle Amelia Sedley and the ambitious Becky Sharp, from their school days through the Napoleonic wars and beyond. It shows how love, money and social rank shape their lives and those of the people around them.
Who is the hero of Vanity Fair?
The novel is subtitled a novel without a hero. Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley share the main roles, and the narrator says plainly that neither is a conventional heroine. Captain Dobbin comes closest to a hero, but the book keeps its distance from the idea.
What does the title Vanity Fair mean?
The title names a noisy fairground where people chase money, rank, pleasure and show. The narrator uses it as a picture of society, where cheating and flattery are common and where wealth and titles can matter more than honest character.
When was Vanity Fair written and is it a true story?
Thackeray published it in monthly parts in the late 1840s. It is fiction, but it is set in the years around the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and uses real events and places, such as Brussels and London, as its background.
Is Vanity Fair worth reading today?
Yes, because its main subjects of ambition, money, appearances and loyalty still feel familiar. The narrator's humour, the lively scenes and the sharply drawn characters make the story easy to follow, even across a large cast.
Как сослаться на это издание
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/vanity-fair.
Thackeray, W. M. (2026). Vanity Fair. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/vanity-fair (Original work published 1847)
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/vanity-fair.
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