Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Becky Sharp leaves school by throwing the dictionary out of the carriage window and climbs, by charm and calculation, through a society that deserves her. Amelia Sedley is loyal past all sense. Thackeray called it a novel without a hero and meant it: the gaze is colder than Dickens's and considerably more adult. The Gilded Library volume carries full-page plates — ballrooms, the Waterloo encampment, society drawing rooms — and takes its decoration from the domino mask, the fan, the playing cards and the puppet booth of Thackeray's own frontispiece.
Becky Sharp leaves school by throwing the dictionary out of the carriage window and climbs, by charm and calculation, through a society that deserves her. Amelia Sedley is loyal past all sense. Thackeray called it a novel without a hero and meant it: the gaze is colder than Dickens's and consider...
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) lost an inheritance to cards and failed newspapers, which obliged him to write for money for the rest of his life. He drew the illustrations for this book himself, and it made him the one contemporary Dickens treated as a rival.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) lost an inheritance to cards and failed newspapers, which obliged him to write for money for the rest of his life. He drew the illustrations for this book himself, and it made him the one contemporary Dickens treated as a rival.
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