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Book Description
On a broad and colourful canvas, extending from urban and rural England to Waterloo and the continental haunts of exiles, Thackeray gives us one of the greatest social-satirical novels in the language - one of the most entertaining and profound, and, in the person of Becky Sharp, we have one of liteContinue
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Ena said on Mar 18, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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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....
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- English Books
- Hardcover 500 Pages
- ISBN-10: 3895086894
- ISBN-13: 9783895086892
- Publisher: Konemann
- Pub date: Jun 01, 1998
- Dimensions: 1161 mm x 839 mm x 323 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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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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