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xxx, 730 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. |
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Modern Library college editions ; T33 |
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Modern Library college editions ; T33.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-xxii). |
| Note |
Novel. |
| Summary |
A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family. Goodreads.com |
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Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth and a position in society, she charms, hoodwinks, manipulates everyone she meets, rising in the world as she attaches herself to a succession of rich men. Becky's fortunes are contrasted with those of her best friend Amelia, who has none of Becky's wit and vitality but whose gentle-heartedness attracts the devotion of the loyal Dobbin. Set during the Napoleonic wars, Vanity Fair follows Becky as she cuts a swathe through Regency society. Thackeray paints a panoramic portrait of the age, with war, money and national identity his great subjects. The battle for social success is as fierce as the battle of Waterloo, and its casualties as stricken. The satire is at once biting and profound, sparing none in a clear-eyed exposure of a world on the make. Thackeray's skepticism of human motives borders on cynicism yet Vanity Fair is among the funniest novels of the Victorian age. This new edition includes all Thackeray's original illustrations. - Publisher. |
| Subject |
Sharp, Becky (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Fiction.
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British -- Europe -- Fiction.
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Female friendship -- Fiction.
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Social classes -- Fiction.
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Married women -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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English fiction -- 19th century.
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England -- Fiction.
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Sharp, Becky (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst01916874
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Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
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English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817
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British. (OCoLC)fst00839044
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Female friendship. (OCoLC)fst00922609
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Married women. (OCoLC)fst01010701
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Social classes. (OCoLC)fst01122346
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Belgium -- Waterloo.
(OCoLC)fst01213328
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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Battle of Waterloo (Waterloo, Belgium : 1815) (OCoLC)fst01172689 |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Satire. (OCoLC)fst01726731
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Satire.
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| Added Author |
Beach, Joseph Warren, 1880-1957, writer of introduction.
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| Sudoc No. |
I 73.11:1997-0002 |
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