Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair — William Makepeace Thackeray’s satirical “novel without a hero” follows ambitious Becky Sharp and loyal Amelia Sedley through London, the Napoleonic Wars, and changing fortunes of marriage, debt, and rank. A showman-like narrator exposes ambition, money, hypocrisy, and self-deception in English society.