Both "Vanity Fair" by W. M. Thackeray and "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens are quintessential works of Victorian literature, exploring the social and moral fabric of their time with keen insight and biting satire. Despite their differing narratives and settings, both novels share a common thread in their examination of the human condition amidst the complexities of society. In "Vanity Fair" (1996), Thackeray presents a panoramic view of early 19th-century English society, following the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley as they navigate the treacherous waters of love, ambition, and social climbing. Through Thackeray's sharp wit and keen observations, the novel offers a scathing critique of the hypocrisy and superficiality prevalent in Victorian society. "Hard Times" (1983) by Charles Dickens, on the other hand is set in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to ‘Mr Sleary’s Horse-Riding’ circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown. Based on the author’s observations of Preston, Hard Times is Dickens’s classic work about industrial England. Shipped from France