Vanity Fair (BBC)
by William Makepeace Thackeray | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0140275576 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0140275576 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by LibraryLovers from Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Thursday, June 4, 2009
Vanity Fair is among the richest and most entertaining of novels, a sparkling and witty story of English society during the Napoleonic wars. A piecing satire of the Victorian middle classes, it was hugely popular from the moment of its first publication in 1847. The narrative follows two contrasting young women, the flighty and enterprising Becky Sharp and her more upright counter part Amelia Sedley. Their adventures take them from Miss Pinkerton academy in Chiswick to the glamour of high society in London and Paris.