For 10 points, name this "novel without a hero" written by William Makepeace Thackeray.
The protagonists of this book are compared to puppets in its introduction "Before the Curtain." Jos buys a carriage at an over-inflated price in this book while trying to flee the Napoleonic Wars. This novel begins at Miss Pinkerton's (*) "academy for young ladies," and throughout the course of this book the deuteragonist courts George Osborne and Rawdon Crowley. This book is titled for a location from Pilgrim's Progress, and it contrasts the lives of the naive Amelia Sedley and the manipulative and ambitious Becky Sharp. For 10 points, name this "novel without a hero" written by William Makepeace Thackeray.
The protagonists of this book are compared to puppets in its introduction "Before the Curtain."
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero