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Vanity Fair (Collins Classics)
By (Author) William Makepeace Thackeray
HarperCollins Publishers
William Collins
8th December 2011
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical fiction
Social classes
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Social and cultural history
Social mobility
Social attitudes
823.8
Paperback
960
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 61mm
500g
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Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts
Self-serving social climber and anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her status and attain wealth and standing with smart Society. Clever, lively and resourceful, orphan Becky is the the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered, yet good-natured girl from a wealthy family. As both women build lives for themselves in London, Thackeray decadently satirises the corruption and flaws of 19th-Century English Society.