Vanity Fair

In an England on the brink of bankruptcy and war, only the wily may prosper. Becky Sharp is a governess, temptress and social climber supreme, awoman who more than compensates in brain and beauty for what she conspicuously lacks in breeding. to what lengths will she go in order to secure herself a fich and high-born husband? And how many male hearts will be left broken along the way?
We follow Becky_s jouney from the elegant salons of geogian London to the Battlefilds of Waterloo, from her ill-fated attempts to woo the buffoonish jos Sekley, to her equally doomed marriage to the aristocratic cad Rawdon Crawley. Teh unsinkable Becky_s progress is mirrored by that of her fragile best friend amelia, who is besotted with the raffish George Osborne, but secretly admired by Osborne_s staunch ally William Dobbin. Can Both women survive the foibles of love and the catastophic evbents unfolding in England and abroad?