La feria de las vanidades (título original en inglés, Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, literalmente "La feria de las vanidades: una novela sin héroe") es una novela del autor inglés William Makepeace Thackeray, publicada por vez primera en 1847–48, satirizando la sociedad del Reino Unido de principios del siglo XIX. El título del libro procede de la historia alegórica de John Bunyan El progreso del peregrino, publicada por vez primera en 1678 y aún leída ampliamente en la época de la novela de Thackeray. La feria de las vanidades se refiere a una parada en el progreso del peregrino: una feria interminable en una ciudad llamada Vanidad, que pretendía representar la atracción pecaminosa del hombre por las cosas mundanas. La novela es actualmente considerada un clásico, y ha inspirado varias adaptaciones cinematográficas, siendo la más reciente la película de 2004 protagonizada por Reese Witherspoon. En 2003, La feria de las vanidades fue incluida en la encuesta The Big Read de la BBC sobre la "novela más querida" del Reino Unido.

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Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Life, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his era's conventions regarding literary heroism. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel. The story is framed as a puppet play and the narrator, despite being an authorial voice, is notoriously unreliable. Late in the narrative, it is revealed that the entire account has been 2nd- or 3rd-hand gossip the writer picked up "years ago" from Lord Tapeworm, British charge d'affaires one of the minor German states and relative of several of the other aristocrats in the story but none of the main characters: "the famous little Becky puppet", "the Amelia Doll", "the Dobbin Figure", "the Little Boys", and "the Wicked Nobleman, on which no expense has been spared". Despite her many stated faults and still worse ones admitted to have been passed over in silence, Becky emerges as the "hero"—what is now called an antihero—in place of Amelia because Thackeray is able to illustrate that "the highest virtue a fictional character can possess is interest." The serial was a popular and critical success; the novel is now considered a classic and has inspired several film adaptations. In 2003, Vanity Fair was listed at #122 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's best-loved books.

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