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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.
A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.
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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A short summary of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Vanity Fair.
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.
Vanity Fair by 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.
Apr 29, 2003 · by William Makepeace Thackeray (Author), John Carey (Editor, Introduction) 4.2 4,809 ratings. See all formats and editions. William Makepeace Thackeray's classic tale of class, society, and corruption, soon to be an Amazon mini-series starring Olivia Cooke.
Vanity Fair. 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...
Jul 1, 1997 · Vanity Fair is a story of two heroines--one humber, the other scheming and social climbing--who meet inboarding school and embark on markedly different lives. Amid the swirl of London's posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall.
