Vanity fair
Mowat, Diane2008
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Total copies: 1
When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortunes soon rise, while Amelia's fall. Greed, ambition, loyalty, folly, wisdom . . . Thackeray's famous novel gives us a witty and satirical picture of English society during the Napoleonic wars. --Back cover.
Main title:
Vanity fair / William Makepeace Thackeray ; retold by Diane Mowat ; illustrations by William Thackeray from the engravings in the 1847 edition.
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Work:
Edition:
Simplified ed.
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.©2008
Collation:
136 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Audience:
Stage 6 (2500 headwords)
Contents:
1. The young ladies leave school2. Becky Sharp makes new friends3. Amelia Sedley nearly loses hope4. A pleasant stay in Brighton5. Waiting for war in Brussels6. Mothers, sons, and other relations7. Reunions, quarrels, and other family business8. The rise and fall of our heroines' fortunes9. Colonel Crawley's troubles10. Major Dobbin returns from India11. A meeting with an old friend12. Births, marriages, and deaths.
ISBN:
01947926929780194792691
Dewey class:
428.6
Language:
English
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Subject:
Easy to read materialsFemale friendship -- FictionHigh interest-low vocabulary booksFunctional literacyReaders for new literatesEnglish language -- Textbooks for foreign speakersGovernesses -- FictionReaders (Adult)Social classes -- FictionReading comprehension -- Problems, exercises and etcMarried women -- FictionBritish -- Europe -- FictionCollege readersWaterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- FictionLondon (England) -- Fiction
BRN:
3591530