Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

By William Makepeace Thackeray
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An Electric Literature selection of 9 toxic friendships in literature

Vanity Fair, with its rich cast of characters, takes place on the snakes-and-ladders board of life.

Amelia Sedley, daughter of a wealthy merchant, has a loving mother to supervise her courtship. Becky Sharp, an orphan, has to use her wit, charm, and resourcefulness to escape from her destiny as a governess. This she does ruthlessly, musing, “I think I could become a good woman, if I had £5,000 a year.”

Thackeray’s story is set at the time of the battle of Waterloo, in which the Sedley fortunes are lost—and Amelia is back to square one—while Becky rises with contemptuous ease.