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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
This week, we enter the swirling, satirical social landscape of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 masterpiece, Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this expansive novel takes its name from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, portraying London society as a perpetual fairground of folly, greed, and moral corruption. The story brilliantly contrasts the lives of two young women: the manipulative, ruthlessly ambitious, and impoverished orphan, Becky Sharp, and the sweet, sheltered, and tragically naïve Amelia Sedley. We follow Becky's relentless climb up the…
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