Vanity Fair: A Novel Without A Hero
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
In the glittering, corrupt drawing rooms of Regency England, two women from Miss Pinkerton's Academy chart wildly divergent courses through society — and William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair chronicles their rise, fall, and survival with razor-sharp wit. The gentle and virtuous Amelia Sedley contrasts brilliantly against the cunning, social-climbing Becky Sharp, an orphaned governess who wields charm and manipulation as weapons in a world governed entirely by wealth and status. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and the Battle of Waterloo, this sweeping narrative presents a panoramic portrait of Georgian society's vanities, hypocrisies, and moral contradictions. First published in monthly instalments between 1847 and 1848, Vanity Fair stands as one of the great landmarks of Victorian literature, and Thackeray's own illustrations — included in this Franklin Library edition — add a sardonic, visual dimension to his already incisive prose. His narrative voice is by turns ironic, compassionate, and devastatingly perceptive, cementing Becky Sharp as one of literature's most enduring antiheroes. For a novel that declares itself without a hero, it leaves the reader questioning every assumption about virtue, ambition, and who truly deserves to triumph.
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, The Franklin Library
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
In the glittering, corrupt drawing rooms of Regency England, two women from Miss Pinkerton's Academy chart wildly divergent courses through society — and William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair chronicles their rise, fall, and survival with razor-sharp wit. The gentle and virtuous Amelia Sedley contrasts brilliantly against the cunning, social-climbing Becky Sharp, an orphaned governess who wields charm and manipulation as weapons in a world governed entirely by wealth and status. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and the Battle of Waterloo, this sweeping narrative presents a panoramic portrait of Georgian society's vanities, hypocrisies, and moral contradictions. First published in monthly instalments between 1847 and 1848, Vanity Fair stands as one of the great landmarks of Victorian literature, and Thackeray's own illustrations — included in this Franklin Library edition — add a sardonic, visual dimension to his already incisive prose. His narrative voice is by turns ironic, compassionate, and devastatingly perceptive, cementing Becky Sharp as one of literature's most enduring antiheroes. For a novel that declares itself without a hero, it leaves the reader questioning every assumption about virtue, ambition, and who truly deserves to triumph.