That Becky is allowed to live, and to live well, is perfectlyĬonsistent with Thackeray's view of life and Is arrayed: yet, look you, one is bound to The very same long-eared livery in which his congregation Professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only Of all sorts of humbugs and falseness and pretentions.Īnd while the moralist who is holding forth on theĬover (an accurate portrait of your humble servant) Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full In the pages, Thackeray explains the illustration thus: my kind reader will please to remember that these The first published installment had an illustration on its cover of a congregation listening to a preacher both speaker and listeners were shown with donkey ears. Like all satire, Vanity Fair has a mission and a moral. Previously, under various comic pseudonyms (such as Michael Angelo Titmarsh and George Savage Fitzboodle) Thackeray made clear, both in his role as the narrator of Vanity Fair and in his private correspondence about the book, that he meant it to be not just entertaining, but instructive. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, the first major work published by William Thackeray under his own name, was published serially in London in 18.
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