Description

This 1981 collector’s edition of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray was published by The Franklin Library as part of their classic literature series. It is bound in luxury leather with distinctive gold gilt accents, hubbed spine and decorative endpapers. It features classic illustrations designed by the author himself.

Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
It is the story of one young woman’s rise to the top of England’s shallow upper-class society and her swift fall. Vanity Fair also focuses on the people who populate that world, including Becky’s friend, Amelia Sedley, who in many ways lives out a parallel life to Becky’s.