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- Vanity Fair, novel of early 19th-century English society by William Makepeace Thackeray, published serially in monthly installments from 1847 to 1848 and in book form in 1848.
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Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
Vanity Fair, novel of early 19th-century English society by William Makepeace Thackeray, published serially in monthly installments from 1847 to 1848 and in book form in 1848. Thackeray’s previous writings had been published either unsigned or under pseudonyms; Vanity Fair was the first work he.
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Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
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Vanity Fair, Thackeray's panoramic, satirical saga of corruption at all levels of English society, was published in 1847 but set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Wordsworth Editions, 1992
Vanity Fair greatly raised Thackeray’s reputation, and while his subsequent novels were also well-received at the time, he remains best known today for Vanity Fair, as well as for The Luck of Barry Lydon, in part due to Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 film adaptation of the work. Thackery’s health suffered in the 1850s, which his doctors blamed on ...
The satire is at once biting and profound, sparing none in a clear-eyed exposure of a world on the make. Thackeray's scepticism of human motives borders on cynicism yet Vanity Fair is among the...
