| Title : | Vanity fair | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Diane Mowat ; William Makepeace Thackeray | | Edition statement: | Simplified ed. | | Publisher: | Oxford : Oxford University Press | | Publication Date: | 2008 | | Pagination: | 136 p. | | Layout: | ill. | | Size: | 19 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-19-479269-1 | | Price: | €10.25 | | General note: | "When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortunes soon rise, while Amelia's fall. Greed, ambition, loyalty, folly, wisdom . . . Thackeray's famous novel gives us a witty and satirical picture of English society during the Napoleonic wars." --Back cover. | | Class number: | 428.6 |
Vanity fair [printed text] / Diane Mowat ; William Makepeace Thackeray . - Simplified ed. . - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008 . - 136 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. ISBN : 978-0-19-479269-1 : €10.25 "When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortunes soon rise, while Amelia's fall. Greed, ambition, loyalty, folly, wisdom . . . Thackeray's famous novel gives us a witty and satirical picture of English society during the Napoleonic wars." --Back cover. |
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