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Vanity Fair Full Book Summary. As Vanity Fair opens, an unnamed narrator introduces the audience to the two main characters: Becky Sharp, the protagonist, who is a poor but clever young woman, and her friend, Amelia Sedley, the sweet, naive daughter of a middle-class family. Becky and Amelia have finished their schooling and are going to Amelia ...
An awkward man who remains loyal to his friends, even when those friends don’t deserve his affection. A mother who cannot get over the loss of her husband and devotes her life to her child. Though written in 1847-48, William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is peopled by types who remain familiar today. The novel’s early nineteenth ...
Sep 22, 2009 · Vanity Fair. William Makepeace Thackeray. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Sep 22, 2009 - Fiction - 564 pages. The classic by William Thackeray. "If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has ...
William Makepeace Thackeray. Wordsworth Editions, 1992 - Fiction - 951 pages. 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. It chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only ...
May 23, 2018 · The British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) created unrivaled panoramas of English upper-middle-class life, crowded with memorable characters displaying realistic mixtures of virtue, vanity, and vice. When William Makepeace Thackeray began his literary career, English prose fiction was dominated by Charles Dickens.
William Makepeace Thackeray BEFORE THE CURTAIN As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place.
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. William Makepeace Thackeray. Cambridge University Press, Jan 3, 2013 - Fiction - 722 pages. The quintessential satire of life in early nineteenth-century Britain, Vanity Fair is a panoramic tour of English social strata, charting the rise and fall of the opportunistic Becky Sharp.
