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Re-reading 'Vanity Fair' with the illustrations intactMEANWHILE

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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20040831
Author:Verlyn Klinkenborg

Verlyn Klinkenborg
International Herald Tribune
08-31-2004
The Penguin edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's ''Vanity Fair'' has a new cover. It shows Reese Witherspoon, who plays Becky Sharp in the new film version, staring balefully at the reader. Whether the movie does justice to the novel is not really the right question, of course. But it's likely that Becky Sharp one of the wiliest characters in English literature will be too much for any actress, even the estimable Witherspoon. There's a tension between great novels and the all-too-often not-great movies made from them. It's wise ...

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