Vanity Fair

Description

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.

First Sentence

WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour.

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Series Statement

• Seaside library -- v. 27, no. 559

Other Editions

• Vanity Fair: a novel without a heroG. Munro1879-01-01
• Vanity fair.J. W. Lovell company1883-01-01
• Vanity fairHenry Frowde, Oxford University Press1900-01-01
• Vanity fairHardcoverJ. Nisbet & Co1903-01-01
• Vanity FairThomas Nelson and Sons1906-01-01
• Vanity fairDent1908-01-01