Vanity Fair Summary
William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair 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, literatur... Read more

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, ... Read more

William Makepeace Thackeray is best known for his novel Vanity Fair, with its attack on pretension and hypocrisy and its intriguing character Becky Sharpe. A few of his other novels are still read--He... Read more

William Makepeace Thackeray's status as a writer, illustrator, and critic of children's literature is problematic. Throughout his career he adopted and parodied the genres most associated in his day w... Read more

Becky and Amelia are two very opposite characters. Their contrasting personality and actions emphasize their different roles in society. Amelia is shown throughout chapters 1 to 12 as a model 19th ... Read more