Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Penguin English Library Edition of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 'Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?' 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. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish

about the end of colonialism

Miwako Sumida is dead

He feels ordinary - inside

The Lion and the Unicorn

time and cultures

Helen Oxenbury’s bold illustrations of babies reach out directly to babies themselves while the rhyming text with its easy refrain make it perfect for reading again and again and again

and a carefully timed encounter between two seventeen-year-olds

these classic tales will never be read in the same way again

she desperately wants to save him

On the day of Henry and Keelin Kinsella's wild party at their big house a violent storm engulfed the island of Inisrun

As the months come and go

Will they ever have land and a home they can call their own