by William Makepeace Thackeray · Pan Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330400060
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«Vanity Fair» is the satirical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, published by Pan Macmillan in paperback (736 pages, in English).
Becky Sharp, a shrewd and ambitious young woman of humble origins, uses her intelligence and charm to make her way in English high society, while her friend Amelia Sedley seeks happiness in love. The novel portrays with irony the hypocrisy and vanity of Victorian England in a tale of love and social ascent.
Pan Classics edition with introduction and notes by Gilbert Phelps and cover reference to the BBC series. Work originally published in 1847.
For readers of English literary classics and nineteenth-century social criticism novels.
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.
