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Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)  
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 0141439831
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
Edited by John Carey.




Vanity Fair

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Thus asks Thackeray in his gloriously entertaining saga, as a vibrant cast of characters scheme and scramble for life's prizes on the crowded stage of Vanity Fair. And no one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than Becky Sharp, Thackeray's supreme creation. Brilliant, alluring and ruthless, she defies her poverty-stricken background to clamber up the social ladder, while her sentimental companion Amelia longs only for caddish soldier George.

As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought; fortunes are made and lost. And amid the fast-paced action stands Dobbin with his unrequited love for Amelia. A true gentleman in a corrupt world, he brings pathos and depth to Thackeray's epic tale of love and social adventure. Vanity Fair is a truly great novel: one that, in John Carey's words, 'challenges comparison with Tolstoy's War and Peace'.

SYNOPSIS

A marvelous, incisive social satire that gleefully exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars through its tracing of the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women. It is a comic masterpiece that still resonates today.

     



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