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Literature Review Vanity Fair is written by William Makepeace Thackeray. He is one of the representatives of the English critical realistic writers. He belongs to the mid-Victorian generation whose achievements represent the peak of Victorian culture. He is quite good at using a large variety of idiolects to indicate different characters personalities and social backgrounds. As Richard Mullen remarks, ―Thackeray is important not only as a great novelist but also as a brilliant satirist, humorist and moralist. Charlotte Bronte, whose admiration for Thackeray’s genius was boundless, calle