Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

Title: Vanity Fair

Original: Vanity Fair

Category: Novel

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

Publisher: Wordsworth Classics

Year: 2001

Pgs: 694

Weight: 0.443 kg

ISBN: 978-1-85326-019-3

This book is in English

About the book

Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer.

Although subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.

When Vanity Fair was published in 1848, Charlotte Brontë commented: ‘The more I read Thackeray’s works the more certain I am that he stands alone – alone in his sagacity, alone in his truth, alone in his feeling… Thackeray is a Titan.’