# Vanity Fair

> Two women, one scheming and one sweet, make their way through a glittering, mercenary society during the Napoleonic era. William Makepeace Thackeray's sweeping satire skewers ambition, vanity and the price of status.

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## About
Welcome to the great fair of the world, where everything is for sale and everyone is on the make. William Makepeace Thackeray subtitled Vanity Fair a novel without a hero, and offers instead a dazzling, disenchanted panorama of a society in love with itself.What it's aboutSet against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and the fashionable world that carries on around them, the novel follows two contrasting young women: the clever, unscrupulous, endlessly resourceful Becky Sharp, determined to climb by any means, and her gentle, trusting friend Amelia Sedley. Through marriages, fortunes made and lost, and the shifting theatre of English society, their fates unfold under the author's watchful, ironic eye.ThemesThackeray dissects social climbing, hypocrisy, the tyranny of money and the vanity that dresses itself as virtue. His satire spares almost no one, yet it is laced with a rueful tenderness for human folly.Why it still mattersBecky Sharp remains one of fiction's most magnetic anti-heroines, and the novel's mordant view of status and self-interest feels perennially apt. Its scale and wit set a standard for the social panorama.Who it's forReaders who relish sharp satire, unforgettable characters, and a grand sweep of nineteenth-century society will find Thackeray's fair endlessly entertaining.

Sources and references
Verified references for this edition: Open Library, WorldCat.

## Specifications
- author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- publisher: DotBooks
- imprint: DotBooks
- language: en
- binding: Perfect Bound
- pages: 1770
- format: paperback
- oclc: 661188
- openlibrary: OL16313W