Vanity Fair
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair: it is kept all the year long. It beareth the name of Vanity Fair because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity; and, also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. As is the saying of the wise, "all that cometh is vanity.""--The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan "Well, William Dobbin had for once forgotten the world, and was away with Sinbad the Sailor in the Valley of Diamonds, or with Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peribanou in that delightful cavern where the Prince found her, and whither we ..."--Vanity Fair (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray |
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Vanity Fair may refer to:
In literature:
- Vanity Fair (novel), is the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Vanity Fair, a location in The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
In film and television:
- Vanity Fair (1932 film), starring Myrna Loy
- Vanity Fair (US TV series), U.S. daytime TV series from 1940s/50s
- Vanity Fair (1967 TV serial), a BBC miniseries starring Susan Hampshire
- Vanity Fair (1987 TV serial), a BBC miniseries featuring James Saxon
- Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial), a BBC miniseries starring Natasha Little
- Vanity Fair (2004 film), starring Reese Witherspoon
In periodicals:
- Vanity Fair (magazine), a contemporary American magazine of culture, fashion, and politics
- Vanity Fair (magazine, historical), the name of four notable former British and American magazines
Other:
- "Vanity Fair" (Mr. Bungle song), song by the group Mr. Bungle
- "Vanity Fair", song by Squeeze from East Side Story
- "Vanity Fair" (The Ocean Blue song) by The Ocean Blue
- Vanity Fair Mills, a former name of the American apparel corporation VF Corp.
- Vanity Bonfire Fair, a fictional character from the novel Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright
See also
- Vanity Fare, a 1960s UK pop/rock group
- Becky Sharp (film), a 1935 adaptation of Thackeray's novel starring Miriam Hopkins
