Carti in categoria Literature & Biography

Tells the story of Becky Sharp's rise from rags to riches in Vanity Fair. This is a work about the situation of two women during nineteenth century British society and the French Napoleonic wars. Macmillan Readers provide high-quality and enjoyable texts which your students will want to read from beginning to end. Carefully-graded levels from Beginner to Upper-intermediate so your students get the right reading material for their ability. Eight pages of additional exercises and Audio CD in se...

Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer.Although subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative m...