Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery

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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery Beautiful Leather Quarter Bound Deluxe Edition, by the Franklin Library, 1981.

This edition is … Read more Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery Beautiful Leather Quarter Bound Deluxe Edition, by the Franklin Library, 1981.

This edition is beautifully quarter bound in Blue leather with a raised spine and embossed in Gold. Book measures 9.5" x 6-1/2" x 1-1/2" and is 678 pages long. Pages edged in gold.. This book lis in very good to near fine condition. (b1)

Vanity Fair is an English novel by 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 from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, reflecting 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.

The story is framed as a puppet play, and the narrator, despite being an authorial voice, is somewhat unreliable. The serial was a popular and critical success; the novel is now considered a classic and has inspired several audio, film, and television adaptations. In 2003, Vanity Fair was listed at No. 122 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's best-loved books.

William Makepeace Thackeray, (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist, author and illustrator, who was born in India. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick. See less