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Vanity fair / William Makepeace Thackeray.

by Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.

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Wordsworth Classics, 1992.

Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Fiction.

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9780141199641 (2012 Penguin English Library trade pbk.)

9781848376113 (2010 Arcturus trade pbk.)

9780679405665 (Everyman's Library/Knopf 1991 hc.)

9781853260193 (1994 Wordsworth Classics trade pbk.)

Complete and unabridged.

951 p. ; 18 cm.

Originally published serially in London in 1847 and 1848.

"The novel takes place during the Napoleonic Wars and concerns the lives of two starkly contrasted girls: Becky Sharp, orphaned and poor but ingenious; and Amelia Sedley, sheltered daughter of a rich City merchant. These two meet at Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for young ladies, the former driven by social ambition and the latter by her delicate heart. Sharp’s adventures begin with an attempt to marry Jos Sedley, Amelia’s brother, who is rich but dim. She soon finds her way to the Crawley household as a governess and marries Rawdon, the second son of Sir Pitt Crawley, although the father himself had proposed to her. Rawdon is, typically for the novel, an ignorant and self-indulgent man. However, Becky moves on further to become the mistress of Lord Steyne and finds her place in society almost accidentally in the end. Miss Sedley’s story is less intriguing, largely due to useless first husband Osborne and moral by uninteresting second love Dobbin. Thackeray’s portrait of the upper classes in the early nineteenth century is consistently disparaging and negative but is entertaining for its vile characters and hopeless, loveless relationships."--Bibliomania.

Historical fiction.

Classic fiction.

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