Who wrote the 1848 novel 'Vanity Fair’?
Vanity Fair (novel) Vanity Fair (novel) Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his
Vanity Fair (novel) era's conventions regarding literary heroism. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel. The story is framed as a puppet play and the narrator, despite being an authorial voice, is notoriously unreliable. The serial was a popular and critical success; the novel is now considered a classic and has inspired several film adaptations. In 2003, "Vanity Fair" was listed at No. 122 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's best-loved books. The book's title comes from John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", a Dissenter allegory first published in 1678. In that work, "Vanity Fair" refers