Vanity Fair

There is so much to this book. It's an entertaining story of the lives of two women and their rises and falls in English society. There is so much true human perspective penned in these pages that it is hard not to contemplate the ways in which we can all do better or where we have fallen into those vices before.
Without being a preaching, moral shouting novel, we can still get the drift that society is not always true to form and that all humans have failings. Although Mr. Thackeray may have written a novel "without a hero," we are exposed to the truth that even those we may aspire to make our heroes have failings that must be accounted for.
Definitely a book I would recommend to others and will be putting on my own shelves.