Thackeray, William Makepeace
Vanity fair : a novel without a hero / William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain : Wordsworth Classics, c2001. - xix, 694 pages. : illustration (black and white),
Vanity Fair is a story of two heroines---one humble, the other a scheming social climber---who meet in boarding school and embark on markedly different lives. Amid the swirl of London's posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Through it all, Thackeray lampoons the shallow values of his society, reserving the most pointed barbs for the upper crust. What results is a prescient look at the dogged pursuit of wealth and status---and the need for humility.
Adult
Text in English
1853260193 [paperback]
Vanity fair : a novel without a hero / William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain : Wordsworth Classics, c2001. - xix, 694 pages. : illustration (black and white),
Vanity Fair is a story of two heroines---one humble, the other a scheming social climber---who meet in boarding school and embark on markedly different lives. Amid the swirl of London's posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Through it all, Thackeray lampoons the shallow values of his society, reserving the most pointed barbs for the upper crust. What results is a prescient look at the dogged pursuit of wealth and status---and the need for humility.
Adult
Text in English
1853260193 [paperback]