Vanity Fair Volume 1 Author:William Makepeace Thackeray 'Yes this is Vanity Fair; not a moral place certainly; nor a merry one though very noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before he sits down to dinner with his wife and the little Jack Puddings behind the canvas. ' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)