Vanity Fair

No one is better equipped in the fight for wealth and worldly success than the seductive and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to climb the class ladder. His romantic partner Amelia, however, only longs for the rogue soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the vulgar glamor of Regency society, battles (military and domestic) are fought, fortunes made and lost. The only steadfast and honorable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.

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Feng mian ying wen ti ming: Vanity Fair.

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"While the present century was in its adolescence, and on a sunny morning in June, there approached the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, in Chiswick Mall, a large family carriage, with two fat horses in flaming harnesses, driven by a fat coachman in a cocked hat and wig, at the speed of four miles an hour."