Beschreibung von: Vanity Fair. Penguin Popular Classics

A richly comic dissection of English society during the Napoleonic Wars.
Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley together leave the shelter of Miss Pinkerton´s Academy for Young Ladies. They now inhabit the infinitely more fascinating and dangerous Vanity Fair where the only standard is worldly sucess. Becky, charming and amoral, is well-fitted for the fight; when an ill-judged bowl of punch ruins her plans for marriage, her quick wits soon find a range of alternatives. But sweet and sentimental Amelia only longs for her worthless soldier lover.