by William Makepeace Thackeray · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430356
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«Vanity Fair» is the satirical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (816 pages, in English).
It contrasts the lives of Becky Sharp, ambitious and determined to climb society, and Amelia Sedley, kind and naive, in nineteenth-century England. Between them unfolds a biting satire on ambition, hypocrisy, and social conventions, with the Battle of Waterloo as a backdrop.
First published in 1848, this Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction and editing by J.I.M. Stewart; its full title is «Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero».
Recommended for readers of English literary classics and historical novels with social satire.
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.
