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. She attends Miss Pinkertons academy as an orphan alone in the world, and makes only one friend, Amelia, who is friends with everyone. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Buy Study Guide Vanity Fair Character List Rebecca Sharp The protagonist of the novel, Becky is a strong-willed young woman obsessed with status and wealth. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. 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. He has written on Dickens and Thackeray.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

John Carey is Professor of English at Oxford University. He was a regular contributor to periodicals and magazines and Vanity Fair was serialised in Punch in 1847-8. He trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. 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.'Ībout the Author William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was born and educated to be a gentleman but gambled away much of his fortune while at Cambridge. I do say there is none that I love so wholly.' 'I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles-military and domestic-are fought, fortunes made and lost. Book Synopsis William Makepeace Thackeray's classic tale of class, society, and corruption, soon to be an Amazon mini-series starring Olivia Cooke 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.

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