William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray

A brilliant satire on the nineteenth-century English society, William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair was listed on the BBC's the Big Read poll of UK's best-loved books. a timeless classic. Vanity Fair is an English novel which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. The story is framed as a puppet play, and the narrator, despite being an authorial voice, is somewhat unreliable. The serial was a popular and critical success; the novel is now considered a classic.