London · 1848 · citedVanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
The penniless, ruthless Becky Sharp claws her way up through Regency society while her gentle schoolfellow Amelia Sedley suffers for her constancy, in Thackeray's panorama of a world where everything and everyone is for sale. The novel maps a real geography: the London of Russell Square and Mayfair, the Brussels of the ball on the eve of Waterloo, the battlefield itself, and the German spa town where the long story finds its close.
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