Vanity Fair

The adaptation is based on William Makepeace Thackeray’s famous historical novel “Vanity Fair.” The novel takes place during the Napoleonic Wars with England. It is packed with events, rich in subtle observations of everyday life of its time, and vividly portrays a cross-section of people from different strata of English society, infused with irony and sarcasm. At the center of the book is the fate of two diametrically opposed women—Emily Crawley and Rebecca Sharp. The latter, a unscrupulous adventuress, is the novel’s main heroine and the most memorable character created by Thackeray.