Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

802 pages first pub 1848 (editions)

fiction classics literary funny reflective slow-paced
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The book's title comes from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, a Dissenter allegory first published in 1678. In that work, "Vanity Fair" refers to a stop along the pilgrim's route: a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity, which is meant to...

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