Vanity Fair : Vintage Classics - William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

Vintage Classics

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

Paperback | 1 June 2009 | Edition Number 1

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‘I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year’ Vanity Fair

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 whatever the cost. Vanity Fair is the story of Becky’s spectacular rise and fall as she gambles, manipulates and seduces her way through high society and the Napoleonic wars.

About the Author

William Makepeace Thackeray was born on 18 July 1811 in Calcutta in India. After studying at Trinity College Cambridge he worked as a journalist and studied Art in London and Paris. In 1836 he married Isabella Shawe and they went on to have three daughters, one of whom died in infancy. He first found literary success with The Yellowplush Papers in 1837 and went on to write other works such asThe FitzBoodle Papers, Catherine, The Luck of Barry Lyndon and The Snobs of England before he published his masterpiece, Vanity Fair, in 1847. William Makepeace Thackeray died on Christmas Eve in 1863.
Industry Reviews
The only English novel which...challenges comparison with War and Peace -- John Carey
The best thing he ever wrote - sharp, brilliant, touching, clever and cruel, with an unforgettable heroine -- Joanna Trollope
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 *
A terrific book - bold, funny, scathing and quite unpredictable -- Al Murray
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 *

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