La foire aux vanités, Tome II by William Makepeace Thackeray
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"La foire aux vanités, Tome II" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a novel first published as a monthly serial from 1847 to 1848. This satirical tale follows the cunning Becky Sharp and gentle Amelia Sedley through British society during the Napoleonic Wars. Framed as a puppet show with an unreliable narrator, the story weaves ambition, romance, and social climbing against the backdrop of war. With its subtitle "A Novel without a Hero,"
Thackeray dismantles conventional literary heroism while exposing the vanities of early nineteenth-century England. (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 II |
| 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. 2. |
| Credits |
Produced by Pierre Lacaze, Ralph Janke, Christine P. Travers 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: 71.6 (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. | 20864 |
| Release Date | Mar 20, 2007 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 545 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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