No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was born and educated to be
a gentleman but gambled away much of his fortune while at
Cambridge. He trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. He
was a regular contributor to periodicals and magazines and Vanity
Fair was serialised in Punch in 1847-8.
John Carey is Professor of English at Oxford University. He has
written on Dickens and Thackeray.
"I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare
[as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."
--Robert Louis Stevenson "The lasting and universal popularity of
The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his
own nature in the persons of his heroes, was responding to that
craving for action, strength and generosity which is a fact in all
periods and all places."
--Andreé Maurois
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