Vanity Fair A Novel Without a Hero Unabridged Book Review by Qbba

							       Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (Unabridged)
Now a major motion picture, Vanity Fair is one of the greatest of English novels, a
vast satirical panorama of a materialistic society and a landmark in the history of
realistic fiction.Generally considered to be his masterpiece, Vanity Fair is Thackeray's
resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England
during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero", it
traces the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women: the scheming opportunist
Becky Sharp, one of literature's most resourceful, engaging, and amoral heroines,
and her foil, the faithful, naive Amelia Sedley. Amid the swirl of London's posh
ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Thackeray's
subversive, comic attack on the hypocrisy and "dismal roguery" of an avaricious world
resonates 150 years later with implications for our own times.
Category: Classics > British Literature | Fiction > Classic British Literature
ISBN: 9780786115570
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Reader: Frederick Davidson
Audiobook length: 29 hours and 49 min.




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