Vanity Fair

Name: Vanity Fair
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Satirical novel chronicling the social ascent and moral descent of ambitious Becky Sharp

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William Makepeace Thackeray

Thackeray's Vanity Fair remains the supreme achievement of Victorian social satire, its panoramic view of Regency society combined with an ironic narrator who undermines every sentimental convention. His historical novels, particularly Henry Esmond, show his versatility.

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