Vanity Fair - Softcover

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140430350 ISBN 13: 9780140430356

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1969

Synopsis

Photographs, articles, poems, and short stories from the popular periodical capture the events of these two decades

About this title

Book Description:

After first appearing as a serial in brilliant yellow covers, Vanity Fair, 'a novel without a hero', was published in full in 1848. A panoramic and biting satire, it was the first of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to bear his own name. This edition includes his original illustrations and preface.

From the Publisher:

Vanity Fair is a story of two heroines--one humber, the other scheming and social climbing--who meet inboarding school and embark on markedly different lives. Amid the swirl of London's posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Through it all, Thackeray lampoons the shallow values of his society, reserving the most pointed barbs for the upper crust. What results is a prescient look at the dogged pursuit of wealth and status--and the need for humility.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0140430350
• ISBN 13: 9780140430356
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 816