Looking with vicious wit at dazzling high-society and criminal low-life, privilege and ambition, this is a classic yet anything but stuffy. ‘Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts…’Self-serving social climber and anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her status and attain wealth and standing with smart Society. Clever, lively and resourceful, orphan Becky is the the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered, yet good-natured girl from a wealthy family. As both women build lives for themselves in London, Thackeray decadently satirises the corruption and flaws of 19th-Century English Society. Thackeray’s compendious novel of love and intrigue during the Napoleonic wars. Publication to tie in with the forthcoming BBC TV series directed by Andrew Davies(director of 'Pride and Prejudice').VANITY FAIR. Set against the background of the Napoleonic wars, 'Vanity Fair ' follows the contrasting fortunes of two young women, Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp, who go out into the world together, but whose lives take very different courses. The sensitive Amelia begins with every social advantage and the prospect of a good marriage, but war and sudden drastic decline in her family’s circumstances dash all her hopes; while Becky, a drawing master’s daughter with only her wits to rely on, embarks on a campaign to launch herself into society, marries Rawdon Crawley, an aristocratic rake, on an impulse and begins a giddy social whirl on ‘nothing a year’ and an ocean of debt. Thackeray’s ‘novel without a hero’ is a lively satirical journey through English society, exposing greed, snobbery and pretension. Requires internet connection for purchase, plus iPod or other Audible-compatible player or iTunes software on Mac OS X or Windows
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