La foire aux vanités, Tome I by William Makepeace Thackeray
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"La foire aux vanités, Tome I" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a novel first published as a monthly serial from 1847 to 1848. The story follows two contrasting young women—cunning, ambitious Becky Sharp and gentle, well-to-do Amelia Sedley—as they navigate British society during the Napoleonic Wars. Framed as a puppet show with an unreliable narrator, this satirical work deconstructs conventional notions of heroism while exposing the vanities and moral complexities of early
19th-century England through interconnected tales of romance, betrayal, and social climbing. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Guiffrey, Georges, 1827-1887 |
| Title | La foire aux vanités, Tome I |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(novel) Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Foire_aux_vanit%C3%A9s |
| Note | Translation of Vanity Fair, Vol. 1. |
| Credits |
Produced by Pierre Lacaze, Ralph Janke and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 76.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Satire |
| Subject | England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Married women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Female friendship -- Fiction |
| Subject | Social classes -- Fiction |
| Subject | British -- Europe -- Fiction |
| Subject | Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 19112 |
| Release Date | Aug 24, 2006 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 567 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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