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. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. 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. 1884 Belford, Clarke & Company publishers, Chicago and New York "with illustrations by the author hardbound with green decorative boards cover in rough shape but still bound well.
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As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, These are not my babies.ĭetermined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. The infants look like Morgan and Riley―to everyone else. But when they’re found, something is different about them. And one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren’s side in a park. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she’s imagining things.Ī month passes. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own…creatures. And they’re right with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s never been more tired in her life. “Mother knows best” takes on a sinister new meaning in this unsettling thriller perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Grimms’ Fairy Tales.Įveryone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. 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