by William Makepeace Thackeray · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853260193
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«Vanity Fair» is the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, published by Wordsworth Editions in paperback (720 pages, in English).
The novel contrasts the fates of Becky Sharp, a shrewd and ambitious young woman who tries to climb society, and Amelia Sedley, kind but naive. Amid marriages of convenience, scandals and financial setbacks, the work is a biting satire of hypocrisy, ambition and the position of women in early nineteenth-century England, with the Battle of Waterloo as a backdrop.
Originally published in 1848 with the subtitle «A Novel without a Hero». This Wordsworth Classics edition includes an introduction and notes by Owen Knowles.
A suitable read for those who enjoy Victorian classics, social satire and nineteenth-century English literature.
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.
