Vanity Fair : A Novel without a Hero

Name: Vanity Fair
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108060530
Price: 20700 KES
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ISBN: 9781108060530

by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry

ISBN-10 1108060536

ISBN-13 9781108060530

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 9th, 2013

Print length 722 Pages

Weight 1,032 grams

Dimensions 22.30 x 14.90 x 5.10 cms

Product Classification: Classic fiction: literary and general Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

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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.

The quintessential satire of life in early nineteenth-century Britain, Vanity Fair is a panoramic tour of English social strata, charting the rise and fall of the opportunistic Becky Sharp. Rejected by several publishers before finding a place with Bradbury and Evans, this 'novel without a hero' first appeared as a popular serial. The twenty parts were finally printed together in 1848, incorporating the author's own illustrations. Although William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) was not a debut author, this was the first of his works to bear his name on the title page; the vast scope of the novel gained him immediate critical acclaim, though reviewers often expressed misgivings about the dark portrayal of human nature. In response, Thackeray wrote that 'we are for the most part an abominably foolish and selfish people … I want to leave everybody dissatisfied and unhappy at the end of the story.'

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