The Resource Vanity fair : a novel without a hero, William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity fair : a novel without a hero, William Makepeace Thackeray
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The item Vanity fair : a novel without a hero, William Makepeace Thackeray represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
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- Summary
- 'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.' Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth and a position in society, she charms, hoodwinks, manipulates everyone she meets, rising in the world as she attaches herself to a succession of rich men. Becky's fortunes are contrasted with those of her best friend Amelia, who has none of Becky's wit and vitality but whose gentleheartedness attracts the devotion of the loyal Dobbin. Set during the Napoleonic wars, Vanity Fair follows Becky as she cuts a swathe through Regency society. Thackeray paints a panoramic portrait of the age, with war, money and national identity his great subjects. The battle for social success is as fierce as the battle of Waterloo, and its casualties as stricken. The satire is at once biting and profound, sparing none in a cleareyed exposure of a world on the make. Thackeray's scepticism of human motives borders on cynicism yet Vanity Fair is among the funniest novels of the Victorian age
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 655 pages
- Note
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- "Now a major TV series" --Front cover
- TV tie-in
- Isbn
- 9780751574302
- Label
- Vanity fair : a novel without a hero
- Title
- Vanity fair
- Title remainder
- a novel without a hero
- Statement of responsibility
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.' Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth and a position in society, she charms, hoodwinks, manipulates everyone she meets, rising in the world as she attaches herself to a succession of rich men. Becky's fortunes are contrasted with those of her best friend Amelia, who has none of Becky's wit and vitality but whose gentleheartedness attracts the devotion of the loyal Dobbin. Set during the Napoleonic wars, Vanity Fair follows Becky as she cuts a swathe through Regency society. Thackeray paints a panoramic portrait of the age, with war, money and national identity his great subjects. The battle for social success is as fierce as the battle of Waterloo, and its casualties as stricken. The satire is at once biting and profound, sparing none in a cleareyed exposure of a world on the make. Thackeray's scepticism of human motives borders on cynicism yet Vanity Fair is among the funniest novels of the Victorian age
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- Vanity fair (Television program : 2018)
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- 1811-1863
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- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
- Female friendship
- Married women
- Social classes
- Great Britain
- England
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Vanity fair : a novel without a hero, William Makepeace Thackeray
- Note
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- "Now a major TV series" --Front cover
- TV tie-in
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2319511
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 655 pages
- Isbn
- 9780751574302
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Vanity fair : a novel without a hero, William Makepeace Thackeray
- Note
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- "Now a major TV series" --Front cover
- TV tie-in
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2319511
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 655 pages
- Isbn
- 9780751574302
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
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