'Vanity Fair' strips polite society bare, showing how ambition, respectability, and money excuse hypocrisy. Thackeray’s satire follows Becky Sharp and her peers through marriage markets and moral ...
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic ...
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