English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1412 short lesson, about 20 seconds
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
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The idea
Thackeray's satirical Vanity Fair, of eighteen forty-seven and forty-eight, subtitled A Novel without a Hero, follows the scheming Becky Sharp and gentle Amelia Sedley through the Napoleonic Wars. Its title comes from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. In his day he ranked second to Dickens.
In practice
Becky Sharp, no hero, a fair of vanities.
Where people slip
The title is from Bunyan.
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