Vanity Fair: Introduction by Catherine Peters - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:William Makepeace Thackeray, Catherine Peters (Introduction by)Series:Everyman's Library ClassicsPublish date:10/15/1991Pages:800
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780679405665ISBN-10:679405666UPC:9780679405665Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, HistoricalSize:8.32 x 5.36 x 1.67 inchesWeight:1.7813Product ID:SCZ2J55B0V
Vanity Fair: Introduction by Catherine Peters
A panoramic satire of English society during the Napoleonic Wars, Vanity Fair is William Makepeace Thackeray's masterpiece. At its center is one of the most unforgettable characters in nineteenth-century literature: the enthralling Becky Sharp, a charmingly ruthless social climber who is determined to leave behind her humble origins, no matter the cost. Her more gentle friend Amelia, by contrast,...
Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780679405665ISBN-10:679405666UPC:9780679405665Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, HistoricalSize:8.32 x 5.36 x 1.67 inchesWeight:1.7813Product ID:SCZ2J55B0V
William Makepeace Thackeray, whose satiric novels are often regarded as the great upper-class counterpart to Dickens's panoramic depiction of lower-class Victorian society, was born on July 18, 1811, in Calcutta, India. His father, a prosperous official of the British East India Company, died four years later, and at the age of six Thackeray was sent to England to be educated. After graduating...
Publisher: Everyman's Library
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