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About the product «Vanity Fair» is Thackeray’s main work, the focus of the writer is on deceitful and vicious people. The author believed that there is nothing surprising in kindness, but evil is very curious and interesting to study. Paradoxically, it is against the background of the pettiness and selfishness of Thackeray’s characters that the ideals of virtue look most vividly and prominently. Thackeray’s contemporaries considered the novel scandalous to the point of indecency, but this did not prevent the author from becoming famous immediately after its release. The writer said that his novel is without a hero, the story is based on the story of Becky Sharp, ready to do anything to get out of poverty and become rich. respectable society lady. All those tricks that the cunning Becky goes to to get what she wants are very popular now. It is no coincidence that «Vanity Fair» was and remains one of the most popular works in the world.
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