Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics S.) - Softcover

Thackeray, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141442026 ISBN 13: 9780141442020

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2006

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Reseña del editor:

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.

Biografía del autor:

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was born and educated to be a gentleman but gambled away much of his fortune while at Cambridge. He trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. He was a regular contributor to periodicals and magazines and Vanity Fair was serialised in Punch in 1847-8.
John Carey is Professor of English at Oxford University. He has written on Dickens and Thackeray.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141442026
• ISBN 13: 9780141442020
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 912
• Herausgeber: Carey John