Vanity fair
Subtitle: a novel without a hero.
By: Ed. with an introd. and notes by Geoffrey and Kathleen Tillotson.
Series: Riverside editions,; B66
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 680
Subjects: Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Fiction; British -- Europe -- Fiction; Female friendship -- Fiction; Social classes -- Fiction; Married women -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Vanity Fair is a story of two heroines--one humble, the other a scheming social climber--who meet in boarding school and embark on markedly different lives. Amid the swirl of London's posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Through it all, Thackeray lampoons the shallow values of his society, reserving the most pointed barbs for the upper crust. What results is a prescient look at the dogged pursuit of wealth and status--and the need for humility.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [1] (2d group)