Answer Answer: The Return of the Native Explanation: The Return of the Native (1878)---Thomas Hardy. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by Charles Dickens, and was first published as a serial 1837–9. The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist,