"Vanity Fair a Novel Without a Hero" 1930 Thackeray, William Makepeace

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THACKERAY, William Makepeace

[753] pp.

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.

1930

In publisher's cardboard slipcase

8 3/4" x 5 … Read more THACKERAY, William Makepeace

[753] pp.

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.

1930

In publisher's cardboard slipcase

8 3/4" x 5 3/4"

Full morocco leather bound by Sangorski & Sutcluffe London England

w/ sixteen coloured illustrations by Charles Crombie

Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial (the last containing Parts 19 and 20) from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, which reflects both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his era's conventions regarding literary heroism. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel. See less