The book is subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero", and it really is. Thackeray (1811 - 1863) became a classic during his lifetime, although to some extent he was outstripped in popularity by his contemporary C. In 2003, Vanity Fair was listed at #122 on the BBC’s The Big Read poll of the UK’s best-loved books.This book is one of the classics of English literature. The novel is now considered a classic, and has inspired several film adaptations. It follows the lives of two women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, amid their friends and family. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirising society in early 19th-century Britain. Relatively few titles in the multi-edition Great Books series were given the fabulous full-leather treatment most were quarter-bound volumes ~ very lovely indeed by the lights of their own publication merits ~ but still unable to boast the same ‘Rolls Royce’ elegance of their full-leather counterparts.
It is because of that ‘brief, shining moment’ in publication history that these fine classic Oxford/Franklin editions generally surpass anything else ever produced either before or after that time by any of today’s renowned publishing giants. By that prestigious election, Franklin thus was also doubly honored and formally recognized for the awesome reputation it had achieved in the publishing world throughout the decade of the 1970s. Oxford University Press, in fact, specially chose the publishing division of The Franklin Mint to design and produce its World’s Great Books series because of Franklin’s unsurpassed skill in achieving a premium-quality product: each Oxford book must also be ‘a wonder’ in the finest of bookbinding traditions and, if possible, exceed Franklin’s high standard. Printed from 1981 to 1985,* the Oxford/Franklin volumes are gorgeous ~ absolutely stunning in their production qualities. Its early editions ~ fully bound in genuine premium-grade, hand-cut leather, selected for quality of grain and texture ~ were designed and bound by The Sloves Organization, Ltd., an affiliate of the mint, whose bindery was one of the few in the world devoted exclusively to the crafting of fine leather books. Founded in 1973, it ceased publishing in 2000. The Franklin Library, the publishing division of The Franklin Mint, was of course, at one time, the nation’s largest publisher of great books in fine bindings. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AND FRANKLIN MINT: One Brief, Shining Moment
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