The Red and the Black
Stendhal · 19th Century · Novel
Victorian · Novel, satire
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray. Becky Sharp navigates war and high society in a panoramic satire famously subtitled “a novel without a hero.”
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- Date
- 1847–1848
- Origin
- England
- Era
- Victorian
- Genre
- Novel, satire
- Canon tier
- Essential core
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Length
- Very long
- Collection
- The Western Canon
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Why it matters
Becky Sharp navigates war and high society in a panoramic satire famously subtitled “a novel without a hero.”
This work is included on the basis of bloom / harvard. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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