Thackeray's comic masterpiece, Vanity Fair, is a Victorian novel looking back to Regency England as an object of both satire and nostalgia. Thackeray’s disdain for the Regency is present throughout ...

William Makepeace Thackeray’s literary classic is set ... is being brought to TV by the makers of Victoria and Poldark. Vanity Fair is a story of “villainy, crime, merriment, jilting, laughing ...