TY - BOOK AU - Thackeray,William Makepeace AU - Guiffrey,Georges TI - La foire aux vanités, Tome II AV - PR PY - 2007/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Satire KW - England -- Fiction KW - Married women -- Fiction KW - Female friendship -- Fiction KW - Social classes -- Fiction KW - British -- Europe -- Fiction KW - Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Fiction N1 - 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; Produced by Pierre Lacaze, Ralph Janke, Christine P. Travers 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); Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20864 ER -