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• 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.
- উপন্যাসের অন্যতম চরিত্র হচ্ছে Becky Sharp, যে জাগতিক সাফল্য অর্জনকেই তার জীবনের প্রধান লক্ষ্য উদ্দেশ্য মনে করে।
- The adventuress Becky is the novel’s central character and the person around whom all the actors revolve.
- 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.

• Best Works:
- Vanity Fair,
- The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century,
- Catherine: A Story,
- The Newcomes, etc.

Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman and BCS Admission Lecture and Britannica.