Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wordsworth Editions Ltd; Paperback edition (January 4, 1998)
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 720 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1853260193
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1853260193
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.33 x 2.2 x 7.01 inches