This is a story of Becky Sharp, one of the most beautiful, willful, and resourcefully charming pleasure-seekers in literature. Becky begins as a governess and wins the hearts of the moneyed young and old...emerges , a full-fledged courtesan on the continent, living well beyond her means.

Thackeray's greatest novel is a moral tapestry of early 19-th century English manners, and his persistent theme is the folly of the good-at-heart, the evil of those endowed with grace and wit.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Kirjakahvilan hyllylle (ikkunalaudalle?) That is, on the bookshelf or is it the windowsill?

Found it on the windowsill at Kirjakahvila, Turku, and recognized it as one of those books I've planned to read someday. When I'm done I'll probably leave it somewhere at Åbo Akademi campus.

CAUGHT IN TURKU FINLAND