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With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. 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... Read Full Overview

Vanity Fair is a classic novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1848. It is a satirical and witty commentary on English society in the early 19th century, following the lives of two women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, as they navigate the ups and downs... Read Full Overview

William Makepeace Thackeray's classic tale of class, society, and corruption, soon to be an Amazon mini-series starring Olivia Cooke

Main Characters of this story are Miss Amelia Sedley and Miss Becky Sharp. They study in Miss Pinkerton's private boarding. Amelia is a daughter of successful businessman. She has a calm character and everybody love her. Becky is an orphan, daughter of an artist and a French... Read Full Overview

William Makepeace Thackeray's classic tale of class, society, and corruption, soon to be an Amazon mini-series starring Olivia Cooke

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.'

First published serially from 1847 to 1848, "Vanity Fair" is William Makepeace Thackeray's most famous work in which the author reflects his interest in deconstructing the notions of literary heroism of his era. It is the story of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, who have just... Read Full Overview

"Backgrounds and Contexts" is arranged under three headings. "Composition and Publication History" combines modern scholarship with contemporary materials to elucidate the novel's composition and publication history and present different aspects of Thackeray's life and work... Read Full Overview

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's... Read Full Overview

The Four Corners Familiars series invites contemporary artists to illustrate and produce a new edition of a classic novel or short story. This magnificent edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (first published in 1847-48) is the sixth in this series,... Read Full Overview

While the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered... Read Full Overview

I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year. Becky Sharp Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton s Academy for Young Ladies. She may not have the natural advantages of her companion but she more... Read Full Overview

La feria de las vanidades es indiscutiblemente una de las novelas capitales del siglo XIX; admirable por su concepci n general, por la maestr a de la ejecuci n, por el estilo, y tambi n por su relaci n con las otras grandes obras novelescas que la preceden y la siguen. La s tira... Read Full Overview

En el recinto de la Feria se erige suntuoso uno de los mejores retratos de la sociedad inglesa de principios del siglo XIX, cuyo director de escena de mirada desencantada no es otro que William M.
Thackeray, maestro en el arte de crear personajes femeninos. As , pronto... Read Full Overview

The Penguin English Library Edition of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

'Vanitas Vanitatum Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?'

One of the best books of all time, William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero . If you haven't read this classic already, then you're missing out - read Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray today!