Vanity Fair (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781545575802)

The book's title comes from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, a Dissenter allegory first published in 1678. In that work, "Vanity Fair" refers to a stop along the pilgrim's route: a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity, which is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things. Thackeray does not mention Bunyan in the novel or in his surviving letters about it, where he describes himself dealing with "living without God in the world", but he did expect the reference to be understood by his audience, as shown in an 1851 Times article likely written by Thackeray himself.

Author: Sir Angels,Thackeray William Makepeace
ISBN-10: 1545575800
ISBN-13: 9781545575802
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2017
Pages: 802
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.32lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.59d