There is no doubt that she is the murderer of Joseph Sedley. She poisons her best friend’s brother for a life insurance windfall. She abandons her own child when it becomes a burden to her. She abandons her husband in his time of distress and dallies with an ages philander for the sake of some jewels.
Having befriended the genteel Amelia, she is able to roam the upper echelons of society, and therefore is constantly on the prowl for a moneyed husband, employing her feminine charm generously. Nevertheless, such a principle helps to feed her vanity, helping her to scheme relentlessly against everyone she comes across. 122 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's best-loved books.She is convinced of this, but we are absolutely sure that on five thousand a year Becky would be a worse person than then without. The serial was a popular and critical success the novel is now considered a classic and has inspired several film adaptations. Late in the narrative, it is revealed that the entire account has been 2nd- or 3rd-hand gossip the writer picked up "years ago" from Lord Tapeworm, British chargé d'affaires in one of the minor German states and relative of several of the other aristocrats in the story but none of the main characters: "the famous little Becky puppet", "the Amelia Doll", "the Dobbin Figure", "the Little Boys", and "the Wicked Nobleman, on which no expense has been spared". Despite her many stated faults and still worse ones admitted to have been passed over in silence, Becky emerges as the "hero"-what is now called an antihero-in place of Amelia because Thackeray is able to illustrate that "the highest virtue a fictional character can possess is interest." The story is framed as a puppet play and the narrator, despite being an authorial voice, is notoriously unreliable. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his era's conventions regarding literary heroism. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. 1884 Belford, Clarke & Company publishers, Chicago and New York "with illustrations by the author hardbound with green decorative boards cover in rough shape but still bound well.
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