Project Gutenberg 2007-03-20 Public domain in the USA. 77 Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811 1863 Titmarsh, Michael Angelo Thackeray, W. M. Titmarsh, M. A. Thackeray, William M. Guiffrey, Georges 1827 1887 Guiffrey, Georges Maurice La foire aux vanités, Tome II Reading ease score: 71.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Translation of Vanity Fair, Vol. 2. Produced by Pierre Lacaze, Ralph Janke, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "La foire aux vanités, Tome II" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a novel written in the mid-19th century. This work continues the examination of societal ambitions and relationships in Victorian England, focusing on characters like Rawdon Crawley and Miss Crawley as they navigate family dynamics, social aspirations, and the juxtaposition of military glory against personal ambitions. At the start of the second volume, the narrative shifts back to the domestic sphere of the Crawley family, juxtaposing the distant battlefield with their lives in Brighton. Miss Crawley enjoys the accolades of her nephew Rawdon, who has gained prominence after the battle of Waterloo, while her companions express both admiration and disdain for his choices, particularly his marriage to the opera singer, Rebecca. The opening scenes reveal the tension within the Crawley family as they vie for Miss Crawley’s affection and financial favor, with her health and willpower in decline, setting the stage for deeper explorations of their ambitions, relationships, and the societal norms of their time. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Satire England -- Fiction Married women -- Fiction Female friendship -- Fiction Social classes -- Fiction British -- Europe -- Fiction Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Fiction PR Text FR Littérature Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 1133510 1133310 2024-10-09T07:52:44.039456 2023-09-09T09:54:44.522081 text/html text/html 1110996 2007-03-20T09:52:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 416172 2007-03-20T09:52:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 524929 2024-10-09T07:52:59.022422 application/epub+zip 538495 2024-10-09T07:52:48.557425 application/epub+zip 519852 2024-10-09T07:52:46.749475 application/epub+zip 954666 2024-10-09T07:53:07.616315 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 874572 2024-10-09T07:52:57.447394 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 833735 2022-09-10T04:34:54.627637 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1080781 1080491 2024-10-09T07:52:41.991485 2023-09-09T09:54:42.736061 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1052865 2007-03-20T09:51:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 403103 2007-03-20T09:52:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 22321 2024-10-09T07:53:07.757337 application/rdf+xml 16445 2024-10-09T07:52:47.393446 image/jpeg 3952 2024-10-09T07:52:47.053418 image/jpeg 500527 2024-10-09T07:52:44.144453 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia