[Gutenberg 599] • Vanity Fair
- Authors
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Tags
- satire , england -- fiction , social classes -- fiction , married women -- fiction , classics , battle of , british -- europe -- fiction , belgium , female friendship -- fiction , waterloo , 1815 -- fiction
- Date
- 1847-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.70 MB
- Lang
- en
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About Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirising society in early 19th-century Britain. It follows the lives of two women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, amid their friends and family. The novel is now considered a classic, and has inspired several film adaptations. In 2003, Vanity Fair was listed at #122 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's best-loved books.