Name: Vanity Fair (World Classics, Unabridged)
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Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 9789386101648

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Vanity Fair (World Classics, Unabridged)

Type

Physical Book

Author

William Makepeace Thackeray

Publisher

Alpha Edition

Language

English

Pages

600

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x3.4 cm

Weight

0.75 kg.

ISBN13

9789386101648

Synopsis "Vanity Fair (World Classics, Unabridged)"

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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was a British novelist, known for his sharp social satire and portrayal of the aristocracy and middle class in Victorian England. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, but did not complete his education. After dabbling in journalism and illustration, he established himself as a writer with a style marked by humor and biting criticism of social hypocrisy.

Among his most notable works is Vanity Fair (1848), a social critique novel about ambition and hypocrisy in British society. He also wrote The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon (1844), which inspired Stanley Kubrick's film, and The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), a bildungsroman with autobiographical overtones. His literary legacy positions him as one of the great writers of the 19th century.

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