# La foire aux vanités, Tome II

By William Makepeace Thackeray.

"La foire aux vanités, Tome II" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a novel first published as a monthly serial from 1847 to 1848. This satirical tale follows the cunning Becky Sharp and gentle Amelia Sedley through British society during the Napoleonic Wars. Framed as a puppet show with an unreliable narrator, the story weaves ambition, romance, and social climbing against the backdrop of war. With its subtitle "A Novel without a Hero," Thackeray dismantles conventional literary heroism while exposing the vanities of early nineteenth-century England. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: French
- Translator: Georges Guiffrey
- Subjects: Satire; England -- Fiction; Married women -- Fiction; Female friendship -- Fiction; Social classes -- Fiction; British -- Europe -- Fiction; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Fiction

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