I finally was able to get started on Vanity Fair this weekend. I’ll have more time later this week to post on the first 10 chapters, but I would love to hear what you think about it if you have started the book! Also, if you would like to be able to post here (on […]
Thackeray illustrated Vanity Fair, and as I look through some of the drawings I realize they add quite a bit to the novel. So here are the illustrations I could find in one easy place. Or make that four easy places: Chapters 1 through 15 Chapters 16 through 34 Chapters 35 through 51 Chapters 52 […]
The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan {215} Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair: it is kept all the year […]
The book is around 700 pages long in the copy I have. I’m debating on how much to schedule each week since many of us don’t have a lot of time to read. I’ll start with approximately 100 pages a week so we can finish in less than 2 months. That will work out to […]
Today I picked up a copy of Vanity Fair at the library, so I’m all set to start reading once Chrees posts a schedule. The problem is, I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Not high-brow literature, but it sure kept my interest. Now I have to settle into the more sedate […]
OK, we’ll try and break the new site in right. The first book we’ll have an online discussion about is William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. Several things appealed about the book: it is available online (see Project Gutenberg), if you decide to buy it the list price is around $8 (see Penguin Classics or Modern […]