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New York. 1940. Heritage Press. Reprinted Edition. Very Good in Hardcover With Slightly Discolored Boards. Illustrated with two hundred drawings made by the author for the first edition. With a note upon the text by John T, Winterrich and a notes upon the drawings by John Sloane. 759 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER - VANITY FAIR is the story of Becky Sharp, one of the most beautiful, willful, and resourcefully charming pleasure-seekers in literature. With finishing- school credentials and proper connections, Becky begins as a governess, wins the hearts of the moneyed young and old, and, in the light of presentation at court and calculated scandals, emerges a full-fledged courtesan on the Continent, living surprisingly well beyond her means. Thackeray's greatest novel is a moral tapestry of early nineteenth-century English manners, and his persistent theme is the folly of the good-at-heart, the evil of those endowed with grace and wit. Anthony Trollope called… Read More

New York. 1985. Penguin Books. Reprinted Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0140430350. Edited & With An Introduction by J. I. M. Stewart. 814 pages. paperback. The cover shows a detail from A Swarm of English Bees Hiving in the imperial Carriage by George Cruikshank, in the British Museum (photo: John Freeman). keywords: Penguin Classic Paperback England Literature 19th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A rich and resplendent story of English society during the Napoleonic Wars. In it there is, to quote Thackeray, ‘a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling: there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out, quacks bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers.' Through this free-wheeling melee of brilliant improvisations sail Becky Sharp, one of… Read More

Norwalk, Connecticut: Heritage Press, 1968. Reprint. Hardback. NF. Blue pictorial cloth in very good slipcase.