Vanity Fair
Book Data
- Author
- William Makepeace Thackery
- Year
- Pages
- 759
- Acquired
- Not recorded
- Open Library
- OL16313W
- I have not read this book.
- A hardcover copy of this book is currently in my home library.
In the 1678 novel Pilgrim’s Progress there was a town called Vanity that had a non-stop fair specializing in anything Man could pleasure in or desire. It is run by the demon Beelzebub and represented Man’s frivolity and hedonism. The phrase was then used as the title of a serialized novel in 1847….