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Vanity fair / by William Makepeace Thackeray; with reproductions of the original illustrations by Thackeray and with an introductory biographical sketch of the author by Basil Davenport.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
- Series:
- Great illustrated classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815--Fiction.
- Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815.
- British--Europe--Fiction.
- British.
- Europe.
- England.
- Female friendship--Fiction.
- Female friendship.
- Social classes--Fiction.
- Social classes.
- Married women--Fiction.
- Married women.
- England--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Satirical literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sherman, Sue (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 9 preliminary leaves, 15-753 pages, 1 unnumbered page : frontispiece (portrait) 15 plates ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1943.
- Summary:
- Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley become friends at Miss Pinkerton's school for girls. Apparently destined to rise to no higher a station in life than as a governess, Becky's beauty, cleverness, and heartlessness cause her fortunes to improve.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by Sue Sherman on front pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 643780
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