Vanity fair

by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Full title :Vanity fair / William Makepeace Thackery ; with pen and pencil sketches of English society by the author ; with an introduction and notes by Nicholas Dames.

Summary

I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest and most appealing women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thackeray 's wonderfully satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Scorned for her lack of money and breeding, Becky must use all her wit, charm and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess. From London's ballrooms to the battlefields of Waterloo, the bewitching Becky works her wiles on a gallery of memorable characters, including her lecherous employer, Sir Pitt, his rich sister, Miss Crawley, and Pitt's dashing son, Rawdon, the first of Becky's misguided sexual entanglements. Filled with hilarious dialogue and superb characterizations, Vanity Fair is a richly entertaining comedy that asks the reader, Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? Features more than 100 illustrations drawn by Thackeray himself for the initial publication. Nicholas Dames is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is the author of Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870, and other commentary on nineteenth-century British and French fiction.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2003

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Barnes & Noble Classics
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxxviii, 696 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781411433403, 1411433408
oclc:on1313808467
LC Classification:PR5618
Dewey Decimal:823/.8

Subjects

Amitié féminine -- Romans, nouvelles, e… Angleterre -- Romans, nouvelles, etc Bataille de Waterloo, Waterloo, Belgiqu… Belgium -- Waterloo Britanniques -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.… British British -- Fiction. -- Europe Classes sociales -- Romans, nouvelles, … England England -- Fiction England -- London Europe Female friendship Female friendship -- Fiction Femmes mariées -- Romans, nouvelles, etc Fiction Fiction -- Female friendship Fiction. -- British Fiction. -- Governesses Fiction. -- Social classes