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02328aam a2200361Mi 4500 001 5B7F4EB6F21611E88BBBF62897128E48 003 SILO 005 20181127013003 008 150205t20181848enk e b 000 1 eng 020 $a 0751574309 (paperback) 020 $a 9780751574302 (paperback) 035 $a (OCoLC)1054360873 040 $a AU@ $b eng $c AU@ $e rda $d JIU $d SILO 100 1 $a Thackeray, William Makepeace, $d 1811-1863. 245 10 $a Vanity fair : $b a novel without a hero / $c William Makepeace Thackeray. 264 1 $a London, England : $b Sphere, $c 2018. 300 $a 655 pages ; $c 20 cm. 500 $a TV tie-in. 520 $a '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 gentle-heartedness 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 clear-eyed 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. 650 0 $a Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Female friendship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Married women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Social classes $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $y George III, 1760-1820 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a England $x Social life and customs $y 19th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Regency fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Classical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l WFPC115 $d 20230213143313.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20181127015718.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B7F4EB6F21611E88BBBF62897128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search