by William Makepeace Thackeray · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099518938
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Vanity Fair» is the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, published by Random House in paperback (768 pages, in English).
The novel follows Becky Sharp, a shrewd and ambitious young woman of humble origins who, along with her friend Amelia Sedley, seeks to make her way in nineteenth-century London society. Amid balls and Napoleonic wars, Becky uses her wit to rise, while Thackeray portrays with irony the hypocrisy of the era.
The original title of the work is «Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero» and this edition belongs to the Vintage Classics imprint.
William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick.
