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Vanity Fair (Oxford World's Classics)
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Description for Vanity Fair (Oxford World's Classics)
Paperback. Set during the Napoleonic wars, Vanity Fair follows Becky Sharp as she cuts a swathe through Regency society. War, money, and national identity are the themes of Thackeray's great satirical novel, as it exposes a world on the make. In Becky, Thackeray created one of the most memorable female characters in Victorian fiction. Editor(s): Small, Helen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 1024 pages, 193 black and white illustrations by Thackeray. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 52. Weight in Grams: 702.
'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.' 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 ... Read more
'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.' 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1024
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198727712
SKU
V9780198727712
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About William Makepeace Thackeray
Helen Small is the author of The Long Life (2007), winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism (2008) and the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from the British Academy (2008). For Oxford World's Classics she has edited George Eliot's The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds and The Last Chronicle of ... Read more
Reviews for Vanity Fair (Oxford World's Classics)
We are more immersed in war now than we have ever been; we experience it and are affected by it remotely even when our country isn't actively participating. By focusing on how war affects the people who aren't heroes, Thackeray has given us the greatest novel about Waterloo, and one that is just as relevant 200 years later."
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