Vanity Fair
Two schoolfriends leave together in 1813: Amelia Sedley, gentle and well provided for, and Becky Sharp, a painter's orphan with nothing but nerve. Becky works her way through governess posts, drawing rooms and Waterloo toward the money and rank she means to have. A novel without a hero: Becky Sharp climbing the greasy pole of a society that deserves her.
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- influenced by ↑ Tom Jones
- takes its title from ↑ The Pilgrim's Progress
- ↓ The Way We Live Now
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