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Vanity Fair (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
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Vanity Fair (Penguin Clothbound Classics) Hardcover - 2013

by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Penguin Classics, 2013-08-27. hardcover. Used: Good.
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  • Title Vanity Fair (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
  • Author Thackeray, William Makepeace
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Hardback
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 912
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics
  • Date 2013-08-27
  • Features Bookmark, Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0141199547
  • ISBN 9780141199542 / 0141199547
  • Weight 2.25 lbs (1.02 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.4 x 2.1 in (20.07 x 13.72 x 5.33 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1270
  • Library of Congress subjects London (England), Married women
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

In William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, no one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, 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 made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.

From the publisher

William Makepeace Thackeray's classic tale of class, society, and corruption, soon to be an Amazon mini-series starring Olivia Cooke

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, 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 made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design In William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, no one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, 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 made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.

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Citations

  • People Weekly, 03/31/2014, Page 55

About the author

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was born and educated to be a gentleman but gambled away much of his fortune while at Cambridge. He trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. He was a regular contributor to periodicals and magazines and Vanity Fair was serialised in Punch in 1847-8. John Carey is Professor of English at Oxford University. He has written on Dickens and Thackeray.

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