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Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray
24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Written in 1848, this is the humorous and uninhibited story of Arthur Pendennis, the son of a selfless widow, who moves from one disastrous romantic entanglement to another. It is an introspective novel, chronicling Thackeray's own youth and growth to maturity under a thin veil of fiction.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
With a specially commissioned afterword, the "Collector's Library" series includes a brief biography of the author, and a further reading list. This edition contains an afterword by Henry Hitchings.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
23.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
On a broad and colourful canvas, extending from urban and rural England to Waterloo and the continental haunts of exiles, Thackeray gives us one of the greatest social-satirical novels in the language-one of the most entertaining and profound, and, in the person of Becky Sharp, we have one of literature ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
14.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S. | Reading Level: very good
A story of English society during the Napoleonic wars. Through a free-wheeling melee of brilliant improvisations sail Becky Sharp, a resourceful, engaging and amoral character, and Amelia Sedley, her less lustrous but more ambiguous foil.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Becky Sharp is the most alluring yet ruthless heroine ever to climb the social ladder. From sordid bohemian beginnings she moves upwards through Regency society, betraying her husband, her friend Amelia and all who cross her in her determination to acquire power. In post-war London after Waterloo, Becky ...Show more
Vanity Fair (Clothbound Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray '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 William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Vanity Fair (Film-tie ) by William Makepeace Thackeray
19.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books
English society during the Napoleonic wars. Becky is charming and amoral and well equipped to fight for worldly success. Amelia is sweet and sentimental and longs for her worthless soldier lover, while the good but dull Dobbin stands patiently by. With a cast of characters grotesque, corrupt and downrig ...Show more
Vanity Fair (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Makepeace Thackeray
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
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 ...Show more
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