Vanity Fair (1996)

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Vanity Fair (1996)

William Makepeace Thackeray

Edition year 1996
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Roland Pym
Weight 2 Kg
Pages 686
Dimensions 24 × 16.2 cm

Edition details

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. 2nd. edition. Introduction by Fay Weldon, sixteen colour illustrations and 51 small tail-pieces by Roland Pym. Full yellow cloth printed in blue and black with a pattern by Pym, blue endleaves. Blue slipcase. 24 x 16.2 cm. 686 pp.

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William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair follows the contrasting fortunes of the ambitious Becky Sharp and the gentle Amelia Sedley against the background of early nineteenth-century British society. Determined to rise beyond her modest origins, Becky uses intelligence, charm and manipulation to advance through a world dominated by wealth and social status. Thackeray's famously satirical "novel without a hero" examines ambition, hypocrisy, marriage and the relentless pursuit of respectability.

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