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He is best known now for Vanity Fair, with its deft skewering of human foibles and its roguishly attractive heroine. His large novels from the period after this, once described unflatteringly by Henry James as examples of loose baggy monsters, have faded from view, perhaps because they reflect a mellowing in the author, who became so successful with his satires on society that he seemed to lose his zest for attacking it. Plot summary Amelia Sedley, of good family, and Rebecca Sharp, an orphan, leave Miss Pinkertons academy on Chiswick Mall to live out their lives in Vanity Fair — the world of