William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair (English Edition). William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair (English Edition)
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Автор произведения: William Makepeace Thackeray
Жанр: Языкознание
Издательство: Bookwire
isbn: 9783748532750
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"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."