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New York. 1940. Heritage Press. Reprinted Edition. Very Good in Hardcover With Slightly Discolored Boards. Illustrated with two hundred drawings made by the author for the first edition. With a note upon the text by John T, Winterrich and a notes upon the drawings by John Sloane. 759 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER - VANITY FAIR is the story of Becky Sharp, one of the most beautiful, willful, and resourcefully charming pleasure-seekers in literature. With finishing- school credentials and proper connections, Becky begins as a governess, wins the hearts of the moneyed young and old, and, in the light of presentation at court and calculated scandals, emerges a full-fledged courtesan on the Continent, living surprisingly well beyond her means. Thackeray's greatest novel is a moral tapestry of early nineteenth-century English manners, and his persistent theme is the folly of the good-at-heart, the evil of those endowed with grace and wit. Anthony Trollope called…
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