La foire aux vanités, Tome II
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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. 2. Release date is 2007-03-20
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"La foire aux vanités, Tome II" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a novel first published as a monthly serial from 1847 to 1848. This satirical tale follows the cunning Becky Sharp and gentle Amelia Sedley through British society during the Napoleonic Wars. Framed as a puppet show with an unreliable narrator, the story weaves ambition, romance, and social climbing against the backdrop of war. With its subtitle "A Novel without a Hero," Thackeray dismantles conventional literary heroism while exposing the vanities of early nineteenth-century England. (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