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.

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Paperback, 3rd Edition

ISBN13: 9780007902170

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2011

Paperback, 8th Edition

ISBN13: 9781853260193

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998

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