Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Author: William Makepeace ThackerayIntroduction: Nicholas Dames
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-11-01
ISBN: 1593080719
Number of pages: 736
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
Book Reviews of Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Book Review: Barnes & Noble edition---good text size and excellent annotation
Summary: 5 Stars
Scholars can make careers out of analyzing this wonderful novel, so I'll comment on the edition I'm reading, the Barnes and Noble full-size paperback. The text size is just within the range of "comfortable" for a middle-aged reader, a feature not easy to find in the great classics.
The footnotes and endnotes greatly enhanced my reading experience, as did the insightful introduction.
I hope more publishers realize that modern readers want to tackle the classics, but we do need help in the form of notes explaining foreign phrases and cultural terms and allusions from another land and time. And we need text large enough to make the reading a pleasure rather than a squinting endurance test. This B&N edition is a winner.
Lord knows there are enough hungry doctors of literature willing to annotate and introduce the classics!
Note that Modern Library Classics full-size paperbacks are also often excellent. In any case, if text size is an issue, better try to examine the actual book before deciding, because even these publishers have a few titles with tiny print.
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