Vanity Fair
Subtitle: a novel without a hero
By: by William Makepeace Thackeray ; with illustrations by the author
Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co.
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Fiction; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815; British; Female friendship; Social classes; Married women
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.