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   Followed by. The Book of Snobs. Text. Vanity Fair at Wikisource. 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.

   • Pages: xvi,624 (1848 first edition)
   • Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

   • Publication date: January 1847 to July 1848 (serialised in 20 parts)

2. www.britannica.com › topic › Vanity-FairVanity Fair | Victorian England, Satire, Social Criticism

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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. Thackeray’s previous writings had been published either unsigned or under pseudonyms; Vanity Fair was the first work he.

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4. www.goodreads.com › book › showVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray | Goodreads

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   July 4, 2021. 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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   Becky meets Amelia’s fiancé George, his army friend William Dobbin, and Amelia’s brother Jos, who is on the brink of proposing to Becky until George scares him off. Becky continues to her job at the estate belonging to Sir Pitt Crawley, an ill-mannered but wealthy aristocrat.

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   What is the plot of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray?

   • Becky returns to England and lives the life of a genteel lady interested in charitable works. Amelia and her family encounter Becky one day at a charity event, and they scurry away without saying a word. A short summary of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Vanity Fair.

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   Who wrote Vanity Fair?

   • Thackeray was also responsible for its illustrations. 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.

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   What happened to Becky in Vanity Fair?

   • The insurance company suspects foul play but ends up paying out on the policy. Becky returns to England and lives the life of a genteel lady interested in charitable works. Amelia and her family encounter Becky one day at a charity event, and they scurry away without saying a word. A short summary of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair.

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   Did Thackeray introduce two women in Vanity Fair?

   • Notwithstanding Thackeray's protestations against a hero, he has unwittingly introduced two, not one, from both genders. If one can see the story of Vanity Fair as a battle between good and bad, the hero, Dobbins, and heroine, Becky, were the respective representatives of the two factions.

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7. www.litcharts.com › lit › vanity-fairVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Plot Summary ...

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   Vanity Fair Summary. Amelia and Becky are both students at Miss Pinkerton ’s school for girls. Becky is an orphan who is clever but rebellious, while Amelia comes from a relatively well-off family and is typically meek and obedient. When they graduate, they each receive a dictionary, but Becky quickly throws hers out the window of a carriage.

8. www.gutenberg.org › ebooks › 599Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray | Project Gutenberg

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   Jul 1, 1996 · Jul 1, 1996. Most Recently Updated. Mar 19, 2024. Copyright Status. Public domain in the USA. Downloads. 2275 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

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10. www.sparknotes.com › lit › vanity-fairVanity Fair: Full Book Analysis | SparkNotes

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    Vanity Fair is the story of one young woman’s rise to the top of England’s shallow upper-class society and her swift fall. Vanity Fair also focuses on the people who populate that world, including Becky’s friend, Amelia Sedley, who in many ways lives out a parallel life to Becky’s.