Vanity fair
Book |
Complete and unabridged. |
Wordsworth Classics,
Ware, Hertfordshire, [England] :
1992.
- 0 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleming - Beamsville | FIC Thack | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | In transit |
About
"The novel takes place during the Napoleonic Wars and concerns the lives of two starkly contrasted girls: Becky Sharp, orphaned and poor but ingenious; and Amelia Sedley, sheltered daughter of a rich City merchant. These two meet at Miss Pinkerton<U+2019>s Academy for young ladies, the former driven by social ambition and the latter by her delicate heart. Sharp<U+2019>s adventures begin with an attempt to marry Jos Sedley, Amelia<U+2019>s brother, who is rich but dim. She soon finds her way to the Crawley household as a governess and marries Rawdon, the second son of Sir Pitt Crawley, although the father himself had proposed to her. Rawdon is, typically for the novel, an ignorant and self-indulgent man. However, Becky moves on further to become the mistress of Lord Steyne and finds her place in society almost accidentally in the end. Miss Sedley<U+2019>s story is less intriguing, largely due to useless first husband Osborne and moral by uninteresting second love Dobbin. Thackeray<U+2019>s portrait of the upper classes in the early nineteenth century is consistently disparaging and negative but is entertaining for its vile characters and hopeless, loveless relationships."--Bibliomania.
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Details
- ISBN: 9781853260193 (1994 Wordsworth Classics trade pbk.)
- Physical Description: 951 p. ; 18 cm.print
- Edition: Complete and unabridged.
- Publisher: Ware, Hertfordshire, [England] : Wordsworth Classics, 1992.
- General Note: Originally published serially in London in 1847 and 1848.