Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

What a great book - it actually makes it into my Top 10 Books of All Time list.  I bought it in Taiwan.  In fact this book made the cut from Taipei to Jo'burg  and then again from Jo'burg to Auckland.    I arrived in Taiwan in summer, succumbed to culture shock and jumped at a chance to visit to a bookstore which had a few English books.  I didn't have a lot of money; they didn't have a lot of choice. But the Penguin Popular classics were cheap so I bought Vanity Fair.  I read it twice. In a row.

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