"Vanity Fair is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1848, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp (a strong-willed, cunning, young woman determined to make her way in society.) and Amelia Sedley (a good-natured, simple-minded, young girl, of a wealthy London family) amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. "
