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Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray, ispart of the Barnes Noble Classics series,which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the studentand the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtfuldesign, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of theremarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers andscholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporaryhistorical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes andendnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems,books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired bythe work Comments by other famous authors Study questions tochallenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographiesfor further reading Indices Glossaries, when appropriateAlleditions are beautifully designed and are printed to superiorspecifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellationof influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich eachreader's understanding of these enduring works.

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<div><i>Vanity Fair</i>, by <b>William Makepeace Thackeray</b>, is
part of the <i>Barnes & Noble Classics</i><i> </i>series,
which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student
and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful
design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the
remarkable features of <i>Barnes & Noble Classics</i>:
<div>New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and
scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary
historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and
endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems,
books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by
the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to
challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies
for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll
editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior
specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.
<i>Barnes & Noble Classics</i> pulls together a constellation
of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each
reader's understanding of these enduring works.</div>
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<div>“I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a
year,” observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the
wickedest—and most appealing—women in all of literature. Becky is
just one of the many fascinating figures that populate <b>William
Makepeace Thackeray</b>’s novel <i>Vanity Fair</i>, a wonderfully
satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London
at the beginning of the nineteenth century.<br />
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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.<br />
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Filled with hilarious dialogue and superb characterizations,
<i>Vanity Fair</i> is a richly entertaining comedy that asks the
reader, “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his
desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”<br />
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<div><b>Features more than 100 illustrations drawn by Thackeray
himself for the initial publication.</b></div>
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<div><b>Nicholas Dames</b> is Assistant Professor of English and
Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is the author of
<i>Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction,
1810–1870</i>, and other commentary on nineteenth-century British
and French fiction.</div>
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