diese beiden Büchlein sind ein Dachbodenfund mit stärkeren Gebrauchsspuren, gebräunt und fleckig, stärkere kantenbestoßungen, Namenseintrag, an attempt to introduce any novel of Thackeray´s into German schools as a Standard reader meets with serious difficulties. Those of his great novels which bear essentially the mark of his genius are too voluminous to answer the purposes of a text-book, and to present them in short selections, to omit all those delightful digressions so chaacteristic of the author`s manner would deprive them of their Chief charm. The firsf six chapters of Vanity Fair, however, which record Becky`s first entrance into society, her attempts on Joseph Sedley, and her ultimate failure, are well fitted to be detached from the rest, and to be singled out as a striking be detached from the rest, and to be singled out as a sirtriking first time m an unabridged school-edition. ... (aus dem Buch) 4l6a