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Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars

Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text.

Thackeray and "Vanity Fair". William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863) was born to a prosperous middle-class family in India His father was an English official in Calcutta. After his father's death, when the boy was 3 years old, he was brought to England to be educated at school and later at Cambridge University. The gallery of snobs in the book convinces the reader that "snobbishness" was one of the most characteristic features of the ruling class of England at that time Thackeray wrote, "The society that sets up to be polite and ignores Art and Letters, I hold to be a Snobbish society.

Becky Sharp receives a proposal of marriage from Sir Pitt Crawley, illustration by William Makepeace Thackeray for his novel Vanity Fair (1847–48). Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. The book was originally published as a serial entitled Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Life. Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In 1848 it was published as a novel and the subtitle, A novel without a hero was added to reflect the moral ambiguity of the central characters. The story is framed as a puppet play with an unreliable narrator in Thackeray.

By William Makepeace Thackeray. Being commanded by her elder sister to get the Dictionary from the cupboard, Miss Jemima had extracted two copies of the book from the receptacle in question. As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. When Miss Pinkerton had finished the inscription in the first, Jemima, with rather a dubious and timid air, handed her the second. For whom is this, Miss Jemima? said Miss Pinkerton, with awful coldness.

Читать онлайн Vanity Fair. Thackeray William Makepeace. William Makepeace Thackeray. All which details, I have no doubt, JONES, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental

Читать онлайн Vanity Fair. All which details, I have no doubt, JONES, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental. Yes; I can see Jones at this minute (rather flushed with his joint of mutton and half pint of wine), taking out his pencil and scoring under the words foolish, twaddling, amp;c. and adding to them his own remark of QUITE TRUE.

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303. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (Novel-E Book-Fiction) 5 Originally The Novel Without a Hero, which more or less is about the gist of it, as even the character Colonel William Dobbin is not without some flaws. The author certainly is a loquacious writer and no doubt his mind was muddled at times and certainly his pen hand cramped with the volume of pages of this work.

Vanity Fair seems like it's going to be one of those blonde girl/brunette girl parallel lives stories, but the plot takes so many twists and turns that this formula ends up cast aside. Two girls graduate from a finishing school. One, Becky Sharp, is the daughter of an alcoholic, broke art teacher. The other, Amelia Sedley, is the daughter of a very well-to-do middle class investor. Because of their very different childhoods, they have already learned different lessons about the world

William Makepeace Thackeray. Amelia does not esteem the values of Vanity Fair; Rebecca cares for nothing else.

William Makepeace Thackeray. Rebecca first attempts to enter the sacred domain of Vanity Fair by inducing Joseph Sedley, Amelia's brother, to marry her. George Osborne, however, foils this plan; he intends to marry Amelia and does not want a governess for a sister-in-law. Rebecca takes a position as governess at Queen's Crawley, and marries Rawdon Crawley, second son of Sir Pitt Crawley.