Vanity Fair (version 2)
Author: first_name: William Makepeace
last_name: Thackeray
Language: English
Year: 0

One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mobile Becky Sharp and her gentle, good-hearted friend Amelia Sedley as they leave their boarding school and embark upon their lives in Vanity Fair – the social climbing, wealth-obsessed world of Regency England in the time of the Napoleonic Wars.  - Summary by Helen Taylor