About Vanity Fair
A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.
- Complete Title: Vanity Fair
- Format: Paperback
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 867
- Publication Time: April 29, 2003
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- ISBN: 0141439831
- ISBN13: 9780141439839
About William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), held the high rank of secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864) was the second daughter of Harriet and John Harman Becher and was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company.
William had been sent to England earlier, at the age of five, with a short stopover at St. Helena where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him. He was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick and then at Charterhouse School.
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Reviews Vanity Fair
Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.)
Here I am, 54 years old, and for the very first time reading William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. “Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero.” I disagree with Thackeray. The ‘Hero’ of Vanity Fair is t…
emma
did authors from old times know it was possible to write something that wouldn’t take future readers three months, a huge amount of confidence, and the energy of an eleven year old with a sugar rush t…
Bionic Jean
Written in 1848, Vanity Fair is an excellent satire of English society in the early 19th Century. Thackeray states several times that it is a novel “without a hero”, and at a couple of points tries t…
Kelly
“But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no harm in saying, at the outset of our acquaintance, that she was a dear little creature. And a great mercy it is, both in life and in novels, w…
Paul Bryant
1. I liked the company of Thackeray who is breezy, ebullient and cynical about everyone’s motives. And he’s very confident too. He thinks he knows everything, although there’s not a word about h…
Luffy (Oda’s Version)
The author makes his presence known towards the end of the book. It was both eerie and uncanny. He kept breaking the fourth wall, then he conjured that apparition of his in one of the last chapters.Va…
Henry Avila
The premise I believe that Mr. William Makepeace Thackeray reveals here in his accomplished novel Vanity Fair is people are complex , yet still they strive for their own self- interest above everythin…
Maziar MHK
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Ahmad Sharabiani
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, William Makepeace ThackerayVanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friend…