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Vanity Fair; Wiliam Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
THACKERAY
With an Introduction and Notes by Orcen Knooles,
University of Hull
Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and
jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven
by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in whieh
the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as
a serio-comic observer.
Although subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair
follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked
lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the
brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position
of women in an intensely exploitative male world.
When Vanity Fair was published in 1848, Charlotte
Bronte commented: The more I read Thackeray's
works the more certain I am that he stands alone
alone in his sagacity, alone in his truth, alone in his
feeling... Thackeray is a Titan.
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