A ruthless social climber, Becky Sharp is scheming and deceitful. Orphaned when young, she has desired wealth and social security above everything. Engaged as a governess at Sir Pitt Crawley’ s house, Becky secretly marries his son, Captain Rawdon Crawley.
Wealthy and warm-hearted, Amelia Sedley is her complete opposite. All that she has ever longed for is the stunning and egotistic Captain George Osborne— her childhood sweetheart— whom she marries against her father’ s wishes.
As the lives of the two women unfold
against the backdrop of the Battle of Waterloo,
what does fate has in store for them?
A brilliant satire on the nineteenth-century English society, William Makepeace Thackeray’ s Vanity Fair was listed on the BBC’ s The Big Read poll of UK’ s best-loved books. A timeless classic, it has been an inspiration for numerous adaptations across various art forms.