by William Makepeace Thackeray · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620856
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«Vanity Fair» is the satirical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, published by Penguin Books in paperback (688 pages, in English).
Vanity Fair contrasts Becky Sharp, an ambitious orphan who uses her wit and charm to rise in society, and Amelia Sedley, a naive young woman from a comfortable family. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it follows their intertwined fates between London high society and the Battle of Waterloo, in a satire on hypocrisy, money, and status.
1994 edition in the Penguin Popular Classics collection. The work was originally serialized in 1847-1848.
For readers of British classics and social satire set in the nineteenth century.
William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 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.
