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040			_aAIS _dAIS
100			_aWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
245			_aVanity Fair
082			_a823.8
260			_aHertfordshire _bWordsworth Classics _c2001
520			_aThackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world. When Vanity Fair was published in 1848, Charlotte Brontë commented: 'The more I read Thackeray'sworks the more certain I am that he stands alone - alone in his sagacity, alone in his truth, alone in his feeling... Thackeray is a Titan.'
655			_aClassics
655			_aFiction
655			_aRomance
999			_c59862 _d59862