Other Fiction Thackeray, W.M.: Vanity Fair | Illustrated | v.1.0 | 11 Apr 2026

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The Illustrated Thackeray, VOL. I
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Volume I, finally: here’s an epub of Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero by W.M. Thackeray, originally subtitled Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society. I have fully proofed the Wikisource text against the first book edition (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848) and corrected hundreds* of mistakes. Thackeray’s 190 original illustrations are included.

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* I was quite disappointed to see how many mistakes were in a text that Wikisource calls “validated” (i.e. proofread twice), so I not only compared their text with my OCR’d scan of the book, but also with the Gutenberg version. Next up: Miscellanies 1837–41.

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