# Vanity Fair

By William Makepeace Thackeray.

"Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a novel published serially from 1847 to 1848. Set during and after the Napoleonic Wars, it follows two contrasting women: the cunning, ambitious Becky Sharp, who schemes her way through society despite having no money, and the gentle, wealthy Amelia Sedley. Subtitled "A Novel without a Hero," this satirical work deconstructs traditional ideas of heroism while exposing the vanities and pretensions of early 19th-century British society through an unreliable narrator who frames the story as a puppet show. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- 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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## Audiobooks of it

- [Vanity Fair](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/563) by William Makepeace Thackeray (32 h 21 min, English)
- [Vanity Fair (version 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/11325) by William Makepeace Thackeray (35 h 18 min, English)

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