Name: Vanity Fair
SKU: 57205218
Price: 1751.00 TWD
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Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 9788194619048

Type

Physical Book

Author

William Makepeace Thackeray

Publisher

Delhi Open Books

Language

English

Pages

858

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x12.9x4.8 cm

Weight

0.82 kg.

ISBN13

9788194619048

Synopsis "Vanity Fair"

A brilliant satire on the nineteenth-century English society, William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair was listed on the BBC's the Big Read poll of UK's best-loved books. a timeless classic. Vanity Fair is an English novel which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. 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.

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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