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Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
“Marry that mulatto woman?" George said, pulling up his shirt-collars. "I don't like the colour, sir. Ask the black that sweeps opposite Fleet Market, sir. I'm not going to marry a Hottentot Venus."
I forgave the first instance, but then I had to say “no more.”
For any argument about this being a book of the times: there are plenty of Victorian book that aren’t racist.
(I can only hope that this is discussed when this book is taught in schools.)
Besides that, it’s a sentimental melodramatic story about people trying to get married and inherit money.
Jane Austen is wittier and Charles Dickens has a better paragon of virtue in Little Dorritt and has funnier insight and better descriptions.
I forgave the first instance, but then I had to say “no more.”
For any argument about this being a book of the times: there are plenty of Victorian book that aren’t racist.
(I can only hope that this is discussed when this book is taught in schools.)
Besides that, it’s a sentimental melodramatic story about people trying to get married and inherit money.
Jane Austen is wittier and Charles Dickens has a better paragon of virtue in Little Dorritt and has funnier insight and better descriptions.