Vanity Fair
Author: first_name: William Makepeace
last_name: Thackeray
Language: English
Year: 1848

<i>Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero</i> is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like many novels of the time, <i>Vanity Fair</i> was published as a serial before being sold in book form; it was printed in 20 monthly parts between January 1847 and July 1848.<br /><br />
Thackeray meant the book to be not only entertaining but also instructive; this is shown both by the narrator of the book and in Thackeray's private correspondence. The no