Vanity fair
Subtitle: a novel without a hero
By: by William Makepeace Thackeray; illustrated with two hundred drawings made by the author for the first edition, with a note upon the text by John T. Winterich and a note upon the drawings by John Sloan.
Publisher: Heritage Press
Published: 1940
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 759
Subjects: Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Fiction; British -- Europe -- Fiction; Female friendship -- Fiction; Social classes -- Fiction; Married women -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: This book is a satire of early 19th century British society. A bewitching beauty who bends men to her will using charm, sex, and guile. An awkward man who remains loyal to his friends, even when those friends don't deserve his affection. A mother who cannot get over the loss of her husband and devotes her life to her child. Though written in 1847-48, William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair is peopled by types who remain familiar today. The novel's early nineteenth-century setting immerses us in a strange world of social stratification, moral strictures, and self-conscious sentiment. Yet its characters--from dissolute playboys and self-important heirs to judgmental aunts and finicky gourmands--are instantly recognizable. --Penguin.com.
Notes: Illustrated t.-p.