Vanity fair - Ярмарка тщеславия

The words vanity fair are an allusion to the fair described in John B unyan’s allegorical book Pilgrim's Progress (1678). The fair was held in the town of Vanity, and lasted all the year round. Here were sold houses, lands, honours, titles, countries, kingdoms, pleasures, and delights of all sorts. It was symbolic of worldly folly, frivolity and show; hence, the world, especially a social world, or a city, society, etc. regarded as dominated by folly, frivolity and show, is sometimes metaphorically referred to as vanity fair. Thackeray borrowed the words to give them as the title to his satirical novel where he described the English 19th century morals.

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