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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.
Jun 12, 2024 · 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 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.
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- Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
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Get all the key plot points of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.
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. William Makepeace Thackeray. Wordsworth Editions, 1992 - Fiction - 951 pages. Vanity Fair, Thackeray's panoramic, satirical saga of corruption at all levels of English society,...
