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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409076773
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 768
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Vanity Fair





THE CLASSIC NOVEL WHICH INSPIRED THE MAJOR ITV SERIES FROM THE MAKERS OF POLDARK AND VICTORIA

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year'


Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. She may not have the natural advantages of her companion but she more than makes up for it with her wit, charm, deviousness and determination to make a success of herself in the world, whatever the cost. Vanity Fair is the story of anti-hero Becky's spectacular rise and fall as she gambles, manipulates and seduces her way through high society against the backdrop of Waterloo and the Napoleonic wars.

  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409076773
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 768
Categories:

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Praise for Vanity Fair

A terrific book - bold, funny, scathing and quite unpredictable

Al Murray

Becky Sharp is one of the best bad women in literature ...she is deliciously bad in an era when women were not meant to be

Donna Leon

Becky Sharp may be one of literature's great schemers, but she's also one of its most memorable and entertaining. More rounded than almost all the simpering Victorian dolls who followed, she alone is worth the read

The Times

Still one of the bitchiest, cattiest, funniest and most entertaining novels ever written

Katy Guest, The Independent

The best thing he ever wrote - sharp, brilliant, touching, clever and cruel, with an unforgettable heroine

Joanna Trollope

The only English novel which...challenges comparison with War and Peace

John Carey

Witty, sexy, sandy-haired Becky Sharp, whose impoverished background explains her hunger for rich men and high position. She is a rebel from the very first chapter of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Her one final act of kindness derives from her constant virtue: seeing things as they are

Maggie Gee, Independent