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Vanity FairVanity Fair
Two women make their way through Napoleonic-era England: the sweet, passive Amelia and the brilliant, ruthless, penniless Becky Sharp, who will charm and scheme her way up a society with no room for her. A “novel without a hero.”
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One of the great satirical panoramas of English fiction, anchored by Becky Sharp, the most gloriously unscrupulous anti-heroine in literature. Cynical, funny, and dazzlingly alive.
SettingEngland, 1810s–20s
English society in the years around Waterloo, a glittering marketplace of rank and money where reputation is currency, marriage a transaction, and everyone, high or low, is on the make.