vanity Fair, By William Makepeace Thackeray, Is Part Of The barnes & Noble Classics series, Which Offers Quality Editions At Affordable Prices To The Student And The General Reader, Including New Scholarship, Thoughtful Design, And Pages Of Carefully Crafted Extras. Here Are Some Of The Remarkable Features Of barnes & Noble Classics:
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“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 Novel vanity Fair, A 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.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Classics
Publisher : Sterling Children's Books
Author : Thackeray, William Makepeace
Language : English
Edition : d
Published :2004-01-31
Number Of Pages : 736
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1593080719
ISBN-13 : 9781593080716
Item weight : 1.32 lb
Dimensions : 1.61 in x 5.24 in x 7.99 in
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