Name: Vanity Fair (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
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Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 9781774766545

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Vanity Fair (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Type

Physical Book

Author

William Makepeace Thackeray

Publisher

Royal Classics

Language

English

Pages

672

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 4.1 cm

Weight

1.15 kg.

ISBN13

9781774766545

Synopsis "Vanity Fair (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)"

Vanity Fair follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. The two women are ostensibly friends, who are always in opposition to one another: when Amelia falls into a crisis, Becky is moving in the highest circles of society. When Amelia comes into luck, Becky's fortunes plummet. Throughout the novel, Amelia yearns for love, while Becky fights her way up the social ladder.Vanity Fair reflects Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his era's conventions regarding literary heroism. The characters are all flawed to a greater or lesser degree; even the most sympathetic have weaknesses. The human weaknesses Thackeray illustrates are mostly to do with greed, idleness, and snobbery, and the scheming, deceit and hypocrisy which mask them. Vanity Fair is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel.This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was a British novelist, known for his sharp social satire and portrayal of the aristocracy and middle class in Victorian England. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, but did not complete his education. After dabbling in journalism and illustration, he established himself as a writer with a style marked by humor and biting criticism of social hypocrisy.

Among his most notable works is Vanity Fair (1848), a social critique novel about ambition and hypocrisy in British society. He also wrote The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon (1844), which inspired Stanley Kubrick's film, and The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), a bildungsroman with autobiographical overtones. His literary legacy positions him as one of the great writers of the 19th century.

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