Description
William Makepeace Thackeray follows two very different women through the vanities of early nineteenth-century British society: Becky Sharp, resourceful and entirely unbothered by scruple, and her gentler, more conventional friend Amelia Sedley. Thackeray took his title from Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and subtitled the book “a novel without a hero” — there isn’t one, on purpose, only people navigating a society Thackeray is busy taking apart. First published in 1848, it remains the novel most associated with his name.
