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Vanity Fair

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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.

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Format: Textbook

ASIN: 9780141439839

Publish date: 15-04-2003

Publisher: Penguin

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Novels, Literature, European Literature, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, Classic Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Historical

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narfna rated it

15 years ago

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I like to imagine that if I would have read this back in the 1840s as it was being published, and there had been such a thing as the internet, I would have given it five stars. Thackeray's writing is witty and fun and biting, there was just way too much of it to be going on with in one book. I mean,...

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Books: A true story rated it

15 years ago

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There's not much dialogue in the story so it tends to drag a little. Still a good story and I thought the end where Becky's role in George's life actually helps Amelia be happy was a nice twist. The most romantic line has to be "It was time you sent for me, dear Amelia."

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FefferBooks rated it

17 years ago

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Got distracted when we moved.

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