Vanity Fair Av William Makepeace Thackeray

<p><b>A major TV series starring Olivia Cooke, Simon Russell Beale and Micheal Palin.</b><br><br>Brilliant anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to climb to society’s loftiest heights and couldn’t be more different from her rich, sweet-natured schoolmate, Amelia Sedley. Their parallel lives are marked by love, lust, marriage, fortune and loss, in all their different guises, as they navigate the corrupt circus of upper-class Regency England.<br><br> Hailed as a literary masterpiece upon first publication, William Makepeace Thackeray’s <i>Vanity Fair</i> has never waned in popularity and remains a highly entertaining satire of early nineteenth-century high society. This gorgeous edition includes an afterword by the prizewinning author and critic, Henry Hitchings.<br><br> Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.</p>