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Vanity Fair

(Penguin Popular Classics)

By William Makepeace Thackeray

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| Hardcover | 9780140620856

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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 theirContinue

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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  • 4 people find this helpful

    I love his sarcasm. Books laughing at human nature never become dated.

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    oriole said on Dec 4, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • 3 people find this helpful

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    This book is completly intemporal. Hooking, beautifully written and full of incidents. When I was in the middle, I thought "What else could happen now?". The characters are great and unforgettable, especially Becky, so "Sharp".
    It makes you think on your own world, and you'll find it is not so far ... (continue)

    This book is completly intemporal. Hooking, beautifully written and full of incidents. When I was in the middle, I thought "What else could happen now?". The characters are great and unforgettable, especially Becky, so "Sharp".
    It makes you think on your own world, and you'll find it is not so far from the one described on the book. We are all built upon appearance!

    I have enjoyed every page of it, and it has got 816. That's so much!

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    Ena said on Mar 18, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • 2 people find this helpful

    For 700 pages W. Makepeace Thakaray stays witty and funny. I really enjoyed reading this book, which proves that nothing is what i seems, but tat is all that counts (not only back then during the Napoleonic Wars, but still nowadays.)
    Becky is such a egotist, but lovely character....
    Whoev ... (continue)

    For 700 pages W. Makepeace Thakaray stays witty and funny. I really enjoyed reading this book, which proves that nothing is what i seems, but tat is all that counts (not only back then during the Napoleonic Wars, but still nowadays.)
    Becky is such a egotist, but lovely character....
    Whoever enjoyed reading "War and peace" will like this one. Whoever enjoyed reading Anna Karenina, Gone with the wind etc. will like it too...

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    Kunstseidenesmaedchen said on Oct 7, 2007 | Add your feedback

  • 1 person find this helpful

    Can't take Tolstoy's "War & Peace" off of my head. And I miss him.
    I find the narrator's intrusiveness in "Vanity Fair" discouraging.

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    lilacwine said on Jan 10, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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