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Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1617201529
ISBN13: 9781617201523
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 27 2011
Pages: 676
Weight: 2.15
Height: 1.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

First published in serial form between 1847 and 1848, Vanity Fair is William Makepeace Thackeray's panoramic novel of English society in the age of the Napoleonic Wars, famously subtitled A Novel without a Hero. Through the intertwined lives of the calculating Becky Sharp and the dutiful Amelia Sedley, Thackeray examines ambition, vanity, social climbing, and moral compromise across drawing rooms, battlefields, and provincial homes. Becky's brilliance, adaptability, and lack of scruple contrast sharply with Amelia's sincerity and passivity, allowing Thackeray to expose the hypocrisies and illusions that govern class, marriage, and reputation. The novel's narrator, wry and intrusive, reinforces its satirical edge while refusing easy moral judgment.

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