Vanity fair
Subtitle: a novel without a hero
By: by William Makepeace Thackery
Series: His works -- 3
Publisher: Estes & Lauriat
Published: 1891
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815; Fiction; British; Female friendship; Social classes; Married women
Other titles: Lovel the Widower.
Description: Scorned for her lack of money and breeding, Becky must use all her wit, charm and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess. From London's ballrooms to the battlefields of Waterloo, the bewitching Becky works her wiles on a gallery of memorable characters, including her lecherous employer, Sir Pitt, his rich sister, Miss Crawley, and Pitt's dashing son, Rawdon, the first of Becky's misguided sexual entanglements.
Notes: Edition de Luxe, limited to 1000 copies. This is no. 748.

V. 3 also contains Lovel the Widower.

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Table of contents: title: V. 3. Lovel the Widower.