Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Two women, one scheming and one sweet, make their way through a glittering, mercenary society during the Napoleonic era.

At a glance William Makepeace Thackeray's sweeping satire skewers ambition, vanity and the price of… Welcome to the great fair of the world, where everything is for sale and everyone is on… William Makepeace Thackeray subtitled Vanity Fair a novel without a hero, and offers… What it's about Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and the fashionable…

Set 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…