Vanity Fair

Klappentext HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved! essential classics.`Oh! those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments! and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts...'Self-serving social climber and anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her status and attain wealth and standing with smart Society. Clever! lively and resourceful! orphan Becky is the the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley! a pampered! yet good-natured girl from a wealthy family. As both women build lives for themselves in London! Thackeray decadently satirises the corruption and flaws of 19th-Century English Society. Zusammenfassung HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved! essential classics.

Product details

• Authors: William Makepeace, William M Thackeray, William M. Thackeray, William Makepeace Thackeray
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9780007902170
• ISBN: 978-0-00-790217-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 180 mm x 62 mm
• Series: Collins Classics; Collins Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; London, Greater London, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Medical, Social & cultural history, Social Mobility, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social issues & processes, Social and cultural history, Social classes, Social attitudes, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, Classic fiction: general and literary