{"key": "/works/OL16313W", "description": "Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is William Thackeray's celebrated satirical novel of 19th century British society. Vanity Fair follows the rags-to-riches tale of the captivating and ruthless Becky Sharpe as she navigates her way through London society with fearsome determination and ambition.", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-08T17:42:02.639716"}, "title": "Kermis der ijdelheid", "covers": [4223516, 6302283, 230351, 105772, 3005698], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour."}, "subject_places": ["England", "Europe", "London (England)"], "first_publish_date": "1800", "subject_people": ["William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)"], "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2012-12-05T15:30:03.185756"}, "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL23186A"}}], "latest_revision": 20, "dewey_number": ["823/.8"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Female friendship", "British", "Social classes", "Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815", "Married women", "Governesses", "Social life and customs", "Women", "Accessible book", "Protected DAISY", "In library"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_times": ["19th century"], "revision": 20}