Vanity Fair
About this book
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.
Subjects
- 18.05 english literature
- 1815 in fiction
- amitié féminine
- bataille de waterloo, waterloo, belgique, 1815
- battle of
- belgium
- britanniques
- british
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- british in fiction
- chang pian xiao shuo
- children's fiction
- classes sociales
- classics
- collected works (single author, multi-form)
- england, fiction
- english
- europe, fiction
- female friendship, fiction
- female friendship, fiction, waterloo
- femmes mariées
- fiction / classics
- fiction, humorous
- fiction, humorous, general
- fiction in english
- fiction, romance, historical, regency
- fiction, satire
- friendship, fiction
- governesses, fiction
- great britain, fiction
- history
- literary criticism
- london (england), fiction
- manners and customs, fiction
- married people, fiction
- married women, fiction
- photoplay editions
- romans, nouvelles
- snobs and snobbishness
- social classes, fiction
- social life and customs, fiction
- suo xie ben
- upper class
- waterloo
- waterloo, battle of (belgium : 1815) fast (ocolc)fst01172689
- waterloo, battle of (belgium : 1815) in literature
- waterloo, battle of, waterloo, belgium, 1815
- waterloo (belgium), battle of, 1815
- wives
- women, fiction