Book description
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'Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make
darlings of their ugliest thoughts…'
Self-serving social climber and anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do
anything to raise her status and attain wealth and standing with smart
Society. Clever, lively and resourceful, orphan Becky is the the total
opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a
pampered, yet good-natured girl from a wealthy family. As both women
build lives for themselves in London, Thackeray decadently satirises the
corruption and flaws of 19th-Century English Society.
