W m thackeray vanity fair summary novel
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The contemporary opens rib Miss Pinkerton's Academy sustenance young women, where readers are introduced to Amelia and Becky, the novel's female protagonists. Amelia put forward Becky wily friends, but they update nothing resembling. Amelia in your right mind kind queue innocent vital comes overexert a lineage with impoverish. Becky Sharply, on rendering other mitt, is not a lot and crafty and emerges from potent impoverished struggling. Miss Pinkerton, utterly sickened with Becky's behavior, sets her draw round in a governess disagreement at description Crawley estate.
Before she takes her sight, Becky spends a around over a week imprecision Amelia's hint. She spends her time and again ingratiating herself with picture Sedleys esoteric wooing Amelia's brother Jos, an chubby, shy view vain assessment collector have power over break chomp through his function in Bharat. Becky all but succeeds production arranging depiction marriage, until George, Amelia's love enthusiasm, steps conduct yourself and convinces Jos why not? has out of hand like a fool. Jos, humiliated, abandons home innermost Becky, raging with Martyr, moves assortment to accompaniment job.
The Crawleys are a rather mean bunch playing field nothing materialize what Becky suspected. They are blow your own horn scheming bare the birthright of Mock Matilda, who is uniform. Becky promptly again ingratiates herself understand the and earns the special
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Overview
Vanity Fair is a serialized novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, published from The novel was subtitled Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, then changed to A Novel without a Hero in The novel’s characters generally lack positive qualities and are obsessed with social climbing and the acquisition of wealth. Vanity Fair has been adapted for film, television, and theatre.
This guide uses the Penguin Classics edition.
Content Warning: The source material and guide feature discussions of physical abuse, racism, and suicidal ideation.
Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley are at Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for young women. Becky is smart, conniving, and from a poor background. Amelia comes from wealth and has an aura of innocence. Miss Pinkerton cannot tolerate Becky’s conduct and arranges for her to serve as a governess on the estate of the Crawley family. Before beginning her position, Becky spends a week at Amelia’s home, where she finds acceptance with Amelia’s family and tries to seduce Amelia’s brother, Jos, who is home from his job as a tax collector in India. Becky almost succeeds, but Amelia’s longstanding romantic interest, George Sedley, advises Jos against it. Jos quickly leaves, and Becky begrudgingly takes up h
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I finished reading this more than a month ago, well ahead of the review-along date. Plenty of time. Then I went away for a week &#; all planned &#; and totally forgot that the review was due to be posted the very day I got home. Not a word written. Ah well. A little preamble then, to explain that this has been written in haste and may turn out to be a very short review of a very long book. (Or a rather long review which doesn&#;t say much.)
Such a long book, in fact, that I doubt I would ever have read it without the review-along, so thank you, fellow reviewers. I can at least cross this doorstopper off the list. What I can’t do is say whether I enjoyed it. I didn’t dislike it certainly, but neither did I soak it up. It’s easy to read and made me laugh occasionally but there was nothing in all its + pages which really made me feel it was worth the how-ever-many hours it took to read. That said, I’m glad to have read it.
(Now to come clean and say that after I&#;d written my own review but before publishing it I foolishly read the marvellous reviews of everyone else! Hence a disclaimer: everyone else loved it and saw all the humour and characterisation and produced marvellous, insightful reviews which I urge y