{"product_id":"vanity-fair","title":"Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThackeray'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough subtitled A Novel without a Hero, \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1848, Charlotte Brontë commented: 'The more I read Thackeray'sworks the more certain I am that he stands alone - alone in his sagacity, alone in his truth, alone in his feeling... Thackeray is a Titan.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby \u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Makepeace Thackeray\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marble City Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45726497669306,"sku":"9781853260193","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_91e0b67d-822f-4ff9-80fc-6141404dbb1a.jpg?v=1774116551","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/vanity-fair","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}