Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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"Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a novel published serially from 1847 to 1848. Set during and after the Napoleonic Wars, it follows two contrasting women: the cunning, ambitious Becky Sharp, who schemes her way through society despite having no money, and the gentle, wealthy Amelia Sedley. Subtitled "A Novel without a Hero," this satirical work deconstructs traditional ideas of heroism while exposing the vanities and pretensions of early 19th-century British
society through an unreliable narrator who frames the story as a puppet show. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 |
|---|---|
| Title | Vanity Fair |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(novel) |
| Credits | Produced by Juli Rew. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 75.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| 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. | 599 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 1996 |
| Last Update | Mar 19, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 10964 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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