Vanity Fair

Name: Vanity Fair
Brand: Pan Macmillan
SKU: 9781509844395
Price: 15.29 EUR
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By (author): William Makepeace Thackeray

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Brilliant anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to climb to societys loftiest heights and couldnt be more different from her rich, sweet-natured schoolmate, Amelia Sedley. Their parallel lives are marked by love, lust, marriage, fortune and loss, in all their different guises, as they navigate the corrupt circus of upper-class Regency England.

Hailed as a literary masterpiece upon first publication, William Makepeace Thackerays Vanity Fair has never waned in popularity and remains a highly entertaining satire of early nineteenth-century high society. This gorgeous edition includes an afterword by the prizewinning author and critic, Henry Hitchings.

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Weight: 400g
Dimensions: 104 x 158mm
Publication Date: 27 Jul 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781509844395

About William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta in 1811. He was sent to England in 1817 and was educated at Trinity College Cambridge. Following a period of gambling unsuccessful investments and a brief career as a lawyer he turned to writing and drawing. In 1836 he married Isabella Shawe; following the birth of their second daughter her mental health deteriorated and she had to be permanently supervised by a private nurse. Thackeray's first novel Catherine was published in 183940. Following the success of Vanity Fair (18478) he was able to devote himself to fiction and his other notable works include Pendennis (1849) The History of Henry Esmond (1852) and The Newcomes (1855). He also edited the commercially successful Cornhill Magazine which published writers such as Tennyson George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Thackeray died suddenly on Christmas Eve 1863.