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An edition of Vanity Fair (1800)

Vanity fair

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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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W.W. Norton
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English
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876

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Social life and customs, fiction, Women, fiction, Waterloo, Battle of (Belgium : 1815) fast (OCoLC)fst01172689, Married women, fiction, Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815, Female friendship, fiction, British, Social classes, fiction, England, fiction, Married people, fiction, Friendship, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), London (England), fiction, Fiction, humorous, Governesses, fiction, Fiction, satire, Manners and customs, fiction, Waterloo (Belgium), Battle of, 1815, English, Wives, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction in English, Bataille de Waterloo, Waterloo, Belgique, 1815, Romans, nouvelles, Britanniques, Amitié féminine, Classes sociales, Femmes mariées, 18.05 English literature, Waterloo, Battle of (Belgium : 1815) in literature, British in fiction, Female friendship, fiction, Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 in fiction, Classics, FICTION / Classics, Photoplay editions, History, Snobs and snobbishness, Upper class, Children's fiction, Great Britain, fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, regency, Suo xie ben, Chang pian xiao shuo, Europe, fiction, Collected works (single author, multi-form), Literary criticism, European, Thackeray, william makepeace , 1811-1863, Women--england--fiction, Waterloo, battle of, waterloo, belgium, 1815--fiction, British--europe--fiction, Pr5618 .a1 1994, 823/.8, Social classes, Fiction, Female friendship

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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) Becky Sharp, Amelia, George, Dobbin

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London, England, Europe, London (England), Ying guo

Times

Regency Era, Jin dai

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 873-874).

Published in
New York
Series
A Norton critical edition
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR5618 .A1 1994, PR5618.A1 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 876 p. :
Number of pages
876

ID Numbers

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OL1435825M
Internet Archive
vanityfairauthor00thac
ISBN 10
0393965953
LCCN
93048019
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10168
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248422

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"WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour."

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