Good condition with sturdy binding. See photos. Inscribed. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray published by Rand, McNally & Company as part of their Alpha Library series. Likely published in 1897 or 1898 Vanity Fair: A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.