Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (The Heritage Press)

xxii, 759 pp. Illustrated with two hundred drawings made by the author for the first edition. With a note upon the text by John T. Winterich and a note upon the drawings by John Sloan. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirising society in early 19th-century Britain. It follows the lives of two women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, amid their friends and family.