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Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by William Makepeace Thackery; with pen and pencil sketches of English society by the author is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Kindle Edition, 836 pages Published 1847 Barnes & Noble Classics (2003) aka: Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero Translation and Introduction by: Nicholas Dames What kind of a novel is Vanity Fair? Given the bewildering variety of responses that it has elicited since its publication began in January 1847, we might assume that at no time since Thackeray's serial first gained public notice has the answer to that question been obvious. To the novel's first readers, Thackeray's aim seemed puzzling. G. H. Lewes, one of the Victorian period's most able critics, wondered whether Vanity Fair was too embittered to be truly humorous, and too uniformly skeptical to be effectively satirical; Charlotte Brontë, however, dedicated the second edition of Jane Eyre to Thackeray, whom she had never met, and in the process compared the effect of Vanity Fair to that of a Hebrew prophet admonishing the kings of Judah and Israel. That dilemma—whether Vanity Fair is the work of a moral satirist, or a worldly cynic retailing gossip for the diversion of his audience—has haunted efforts to understand Thackeray ever since. In our own time the pendulum has swung closer to the latter sentiment, thanks in no sma

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Author

William Makepeace Thackery; with pen and pencil sketches of English society by the author

Publisher

Barnes & Noble Classics

Published

1847

Language

EN

ISBN

9781593080716

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Performing Arts, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.77 / 5 (486 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14