Vanity Fair
Subtitle: a novel without a hero
By: by William Makepeace Thackeray
Contributors: Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: 1st Modern Library ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1931
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 784
Subjects: Married women; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815; Female friendship; Fiction; British; Social classes
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. --From publisher's description.