Vanity Fair (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781499613865)

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?" A man with a reflective turn of mind, walking through an exhibition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people's hilarity. An episode of humour or kindness touches and amuses him here and there

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN-10: 1499613865
ISBN-13: 9781499613865
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2014
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.49d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 12.4
Point Value: 66
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 722 / Vanity Fair