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Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry joins the British army. After ...Show more
The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics
The Rose and the Ring By William Makepeace Thackeray This is Valoroso XXIV., King of Paflagonia, seated with his Queen and only child at their royal breakfast-table, and receiving the letter which announces to His Majesty a proposed visit from Prince Bulbo, heir of Padella, reigning King of Crim Tartary ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic o ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; Catherine Peters (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
William Thackery's bestseller tells the tale of two wildly different girls growing up in Victorian England. Becky Sharp is a poor orphan possessing free spirits and an abundance of wit. Her friend, Amelia Sedley is the rich daughter of a wealthy family with no real-world experience. However, the real hi ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
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 ...Show more
Vanity Fair (TVTI) by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics
Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton?s Academy for Young Ladies. She may not have the natural advantages of her companion but she more than makes up for it with her wit, charm, deviousness and determination to make a success of herself ...Show more
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