Vanity Fair

Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer.

Amplasat in anii de dinainte si de dupa Waterloo, romanul spune povestile paralele ale a doi prieteni de scoala - linistita si indelunga suferinta Amelia si prietena ei geniala si intrigatoare, Becky Sharp. Romanul prezinta toata coruptia si decadenta Angliei secolului al XIX-lea.