Vanity Fair. Thackerasey U.

“Vanity Fair” is not only the most famous novel of the Victorian writer William Thackera, but also one of the most readable works around the world. On the pages of this book, a wide panorama of the life of England in the first half of the 19th century unfolds. People of different social circles pass a long string in front of the reader: businessmen, aristocrats, officials, members of parliament, landowners, military, diplomats, governesses, lackeys. All of them live according to the laws of the Fair, where everything is sold and everything is bought, where success and wealth rules everyone. To monitor how their fates intertwine with each other, forming bizarre patterns and paintings, extremely exciting.

In this publication, the novel is published with magnificent illustrations of the artist Grigory Filippovsky (1909–1987).