Vanity Fair (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Editorial ALMA CLASSICS LTD
Festland Spanien
- Verlag ALMA CLASSICS LTD
- ISBN13 9781847497963
- ISBN10 1847497969
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 1
- Sprache Englisch
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English LiteraturVanity Fair (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Editorial ALMA CLASSICS LTD
Festland Spanien
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I can only wonder and admire... If Truth were again a goddess, Thackeray should be her high priest. -- Charlotte Bronte
"Before taking up her new post as a governess, the artful and ambitious Becky Sharp spends a brief period at the family home of her friend Amelia Sedley. Passive, pampered and utterly reliant on others, Amelia is the opposite of her scheming and ruthless friend. While Becky tries to ensnare the wealthy and vain Jos Sedley, Amelia desires nothing more than to be betrothed to the self-obsessed and raffish soldier George Osborne. Meanwhile, Captain William Dobbin, with his constant and selfless love for Amelia, is the only one who steers clear of any calculated romantic manoeuvrings. Woven into the climactic events of the Napoleonic Wars, and set against a backdrop of gaudy elegance and cut-throat personal ambition, Vanity Fair is an epic and sweeping satire, and a landmark of English literature."