La foire aux vanités, Tome I
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(novel) Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Foire_aux_vanit%C3%A9s Translation of Vanity Fair, Vol. 1. Release date is 2006-08-24
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"La foire aux vanités, Tome I" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a novel first published as a monthly serial from 1847 to 1848. The story follows two contrasting young women—cunning, ambitious Becky Sharp and gentle, well-to-do Amelia Sedley—as they navigate British society during the Napoleonic Wars. Framed as a puppet show with an unreliable narrator, this satirical work deconstructs conventional notions of heroism while exposing the vanities and moral complexities of early 19th-century England through interconnected tales of romance, betrayal, and social climbing. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Satire England -- Fiction Married women -- Fiction Female friendship -- Fiction Social classes -- Fiction British -- Europe -- Fiction Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Fiction
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La foire aux vanités, Tome I - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(novel) Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Foire_aux_vanit%C3%A9s Translation of Vanity Fair, Vol. 1. Release date is 2006-08-24
Produced by Pierre Lacaze, Ralph Janke and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at
http://gallica.bnf.fr) Produced by Pierre Lacaze, Ralph Janke and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at
http://gallica.bnf.fr)
"La foire aux vanités, Tome I" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a novel first published as a monthly serial from 1847 to 1848. The story follows two contrasting young women—cunning, ambitious Becky Sharp and gentle, well-to-do Amelia Sedley—as they navigate British society during the Napoleonic Wars. Framed as a puppet show with an unreliable narrator, this satirical work deconstructs conventional notions of heroism while exposing the vanities and moral complexities of early 19th-century England through interconnected tales of romance, betrayal, and social climbing. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Satire England -- Fiction Married women -- Fiction Female friendship -- Fiction Social classes -- Fiction British -- Europe -- Fiction Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Fiction
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