Vanity Fair

'The best thing he ever wrote sharp, brilliant, touching, clever and cruel, with an unforgettable heroine' Joanna Trollope Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. She may not have the natural advantages of her companion but she more than makes up for it with her wit, charm, deviousness and determination to make a success of herself whatever the cost. Vanity Fair is the story of Becky's spectacular rise and fall as she gambles, manipulates and seduces her way through high society and the Napoleonic wars. See also: The History of Tom JonesThackeray, William Makepeace is the author of 'Vanity Fair', published 2009 under ISBN 9780099518938 and ISBN 0099518937.