• Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. - It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848. - The novel takes its title from the place designated as the center of human corruption in John Bunyan’s 17th-century allegory Pilgrim’s Progress. - The book is a densely populated multilayered panorama of manners and human frailties; subtitled A Novel Without a Hero, Vanity Fair metaphorically represents the human condition. - Vanity Fair হচ্ছে William Makepeace Thackeray এর নিজ নামে প্রকাশিত প্রথম উপন্যাস।
• এই উপন্যাসকে বলা হয় A Novel Without a Hero. - দুঃসাহসিক Becky Sharp, হচ্ছে উপন্যাসের কেন্দ্রীয় চরিত্র এবং যে জাগতিক সাফল্য অর্জনকেই তার জীবনের প্রধান লক্ষ্য উদ্দেশ্য মনে করে। - তাকে ঘিরেই উপন্যাসের পুরো কাহিনি আবর্তিত হয়েছে। - She has been considered one of the most vivid characters in English literature. - This novel follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. • William Makepeace Thackery was an Indian-born British novelist. - He belongs to the Victorian period of English Literature.
• Best Works: - Vanity Fair, - The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century, - Catherine: A Story, - The Newcomes.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Website Lecture and Britannica.