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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Author Biography

Name: William Makepeace Thackeray
Birth Date: July 18, 1811
Death Date: December 24, 1863
Place of Birth: Calcutta, India
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of William Makepeace Thackeray
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The British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) created unrivaled panoramas of English upper-middle-class life, crowded with memorable characters displaying realistic mixtures of virtue, vanity, and vice. When William Makepeace Thackeray beg...
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Biography of William Makepeace Thackeray
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Like many of his fellow Victorian novelists, William Makepeace Thackeray is noted for his ability to create memorable characters—such as Major Gahagan, Charles Yellowplush, Becky Sharp, Major Pendennis, Henry and Beatrix Esmond, Colonel Newcome, an...
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Biography of William Makepeace Thackeray
16433 words, approx. 54.8 pages
Like many of his fellow Victorian novelists, William Makepeace Thackeray is noted for his ability to create memorable characters--like Major Gahagan, Charles Yellowplush, Becky Sharp, Major Pendennis, Henry and Beatrix Esmond, Colonel Newcome, and not le...
 


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Liebovitz, Annie (1949—) Summary
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From her first assignments for Rolling Stone in the early 1970s to her defining images of celebrity found in Vanity Fair since 1983, Annie Liebovitz has changed the way Americans see the twentieth century. Capturing both the glamorous and the banal...
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Vanity Fair Summary
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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Born in Calcutta, India, in 1811, William Makepeace Thackeray was the only son of Anne Becher and Richmond Thackeray, who worked for the East India Company. After his father’s death in 1815, the young...
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Vanity Fair Summary
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The original Vanity Fair, superbly edited by the inimitable Frank Crowninshield from 1914 to 1936, was the epitome of elan during the teens and twenties. A unique amalgam of art, literature, humor, fashion, and social commentary, Vanity Fair attracted...
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Vanity Fair Information
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Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. The term "vanity fair" originates from the allegorical story The Pilgrim's Progress, published in 1678 by John Bunyan...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Michael Roberts to Vanity Fair
4/13/2006: 275 words, approx. 1 pages
Michael Roberts New Yorker fashion director Michael Roberts is moving over to Vanity Fair, according to a press release just issued by Conde Nast today. Full release after the jump. —Gabriel ShermanFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VANITY FAIR GRAYDON CARTER NAMES MICHAEL ROBERTS FASHION AND STYLE DIRECTOR...
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Bono to edit Vanity Fair's Africa issue
3/6/2007: 277 words, approx. 1 pages
Rock star and activist Bono is adding another title to his resume: first-ever guest editor of Vanity Fair. The U2 frontman will edit the magazine's Africa-themed July issue, on newsstands in early June, on behalf of his Project RED campaign, it was announced Tuesday."We've talked...
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Bruce Willis: It's weird to be famous
4/30/2007: 307 words, approx. 1 pages
Bruce Willis says being a film star hasn't brought him many perks. "It's really ... weird to be famous," the 52-year-old actor tells Vanity Fair magazine in its June issue, on newsstands May 8. "It gets you into restaurants easier than other people, but beyond...
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After 25 years, Sly Stone speaks out
7/3/2007: 281 words, approx. 1 pages
After 25 years, Sly Stone speaks.The famously reclusive funkster broke his silence by granting his first interview since the '80s to Vanity Fair. In the magazine's August issue, the frontman of the late-'60s band Sly and the Family Stone talks about his music, his disappearance...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Christopher Coates
5,812 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Coates examines how the editorial decisions regarding the illustration of Vanity Fair affected the reader's interpretation of the novel.
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Evaluate the Way Becky and Amelia Fit Into the Dichotomy of `Virtuous and Vixenish' Thus Far
427 words, approx. 1 pages
In Vanity Fair, many of the qualities valued are focused around money, class, breeding and good female behaviour. All these qualities are possessed by Amelia and thus she is portrayed as the virtuous character in Vanity Fair.


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