William Makepeace Thackeray (6 kníh)
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William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair ENOh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts...Self-serving social climber and anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her status and attain wealth and standing with smart Society. Clever, lively and resourceful, orphan Becky is the the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered, yet good-natured girl from a…
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William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair (a Novel without a hero) EN“Our story begins just outside Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies at Chiswick Mall in London. A large family carriage is waiting for two young ladies, Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp.” Vanity Fair was written 200 years ago, but it is a thoroughly modern story that provides us with universal truths about what it means to be human, in all its splendour – and with all its imperfections. It is a story full of…
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