![]() ![]() It takes place in England in the 19th century, mainly in London. Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray wrote The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy. ![]() A member of the Irish gentry tries to join the English nobility in William Makepeace Thackeray's picaresque novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was initially published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844.Therefore, the correct answer is option 3. With the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, it was first released as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848.The story describes the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley during and after the Napoleonic Wars, together with their friends and family.Thackeray's 1948 book Vanity Fair, with a subtitle A Novel Without a Hero - "Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?- Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out." The below-mentioned quote is the last line in W. ![]()
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