【正确答案】正确答案：Vanity Fair: Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. The book" s title comes from John Bunyan" s allegorical story The Pilgrim* s Progress. Vanity fair refers to a stop along the pilgrim" s progress: a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity, which is meant to represent man" s sinful attachment to worldly things.