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home Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Thackeray, William Makepeace
Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1911.
CB12379

A novel without a hero. With illustrations by the author and Harry Furniss.

Contemporary half brown morocco over cloth boards with spine in compartments between raised banding adorned with gilt rule each panelled the second and fourth with titles stamped direct and the remaining with small spherical ornaments in the corners; teg; Royal 8vo, 231x160 mms.

The Harry Furniss Centenary Edition. A large paper copy. With half-title and adorned with engravings by Harry Furniss and the author. A fine copy.

Thackeray’s first major novel, ‘Vanity Fair’, appeared in monthly parts 1847-8 and it is the work he is most associated with now. Named after the fair set up by Beelzebub in Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’, the novel takes place during the Napoleonic Wars and concerns the lives of two starkly contrasted girls: Becky Sharp, orphaned and poor but ingenious; and Amelia Sedley, sheltered daughter of a rich City merchant. These two meet at Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for young ladies, the former driven by social ambition and the latter by her delicate heart. Sharp’s adventures begin with an attempt to marry Jos Sedley, Amelia’s brother, who is rich but dim. She soon finds her way to the Crawley household as a governess and marries Rawdon, the second son of Sir Pitt Crawley, although the father himself had proposed to her. Rawdon is, typically for the novel, an ignorant and self-indulgent man. However, Becky moves on further to become the mistress of Lord Steyne and finds her place in society almost accidentally in the end. Miss Sedley’s story is less intriguing, largely due to her useless first husband Osborne and moral but uninteresting second love Dobbin. Thackeray’s portrait of the upper classes in the early nineteenth century is consistently disparaging and negative but is entertaining for its vile characters and hopeless, loveless relationships.

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