William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible young men of Europe, set against a lucid backdrop of war and internatio

Vanity Fair

A deliciously satirical attack on a money-mad society, Vanity Fair , which first appeared in 1847, is an immensely moral novel, and an immensely witty one. Called in its subtitle “A Novel Without

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