Vanity fair / Thackeray, William Makepeace

The story of English society in the Napoleonic Wars and the early nineteenth century as told through the characters of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.

A satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century featuring Becky Sharp, who must use all her wit, charm, and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess.