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Vanity Fair is a sprawling, satirical novel that paints a vivid and often biting portrait of English society during the early 19th century. First published between 1847 and 1848, it follows the lives of several interconnected characters as they navigate a world driven by ambition, wealth, reputation, and social climbing. Rather than offering a traditional heroic narrative, Thackeray presents a world where nearly everyone is influenced—if not controlled—by vanity in one form o