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Henry Hitchings, William Makepeace Thackeray
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Vanity Fair
Mitarbeit: Hitchings, Henry
2017. 808 S. 156 mm
Verlag/Jahr: CRW PUBLISHING; MACMILLAN COLLECTOR´S LIBRARY 2017
ISBN: 1-509-84439-2 (1509844392)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-509-84439-5 (9781509844395)
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W. M. Thackeray´s satirical classic about a woman determined to make her way in society - at any cost.
A major TV series starring Olivia Cooke, Simon Russell Beale and Micheal Palin.
Brilliant anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to climb to society´s loftiest heights and couldn´t be more different from her rich, sweet-natured schoolmate, Amelia Sedley. Their parallel lives are marked by love, lust, marriage, fortune and loss, in all their different guises, as they navigate the corrupt circus of upper-class Regency England.
Hailed as a literary masterpiece upon first publication, William Makepeace Thackeray´s Vanity Fair has never waned in popularity and remains a highly entertaining satire of early nineteenth-century high society. This gorgeous edition includes an afterword by the prizewinning author and critic, Henry Hitchings.
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector´s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector´s Library are books to love and treasure.
Hitchings, Henry
Henry Hitchings was born in 1974. He has written mainly about language and history, starting with Dr Johnson´s Dictionary. The Secret Life of Words won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award, as well as seeing him shortlisted for the title of Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. The Language Wars completed what was in effect a trilogy of books about language. He is a prolific critic and has made several programmes for radio and television on subjects including Erasmus Darwin, the eighteenth-century English novel and the history of manners. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.