Vanity Fair (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Hardcover

Thackeray, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141199547 ISBN 13: 9780141199542

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2013

Synopsis

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design

In William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, 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.

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Review:

"I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."
--Robert Louis Stevenson

"The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in the persons of his heroes, was responding to that craving for action, strength and generosity which is a fact in all periods and all places."
--Andreé Maurois

Book Description:

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year' Vanity Fair

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0141199547
• ISBN 13: 9780141199542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 912