search for books and compare prices
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
By
Peter L. Shillingsburg (editor) and
William Makepeace Thackeray
Price
Store
Arrives
Preparing
Shipping
Jump quickly to results on these stores:
The price is the lowest for any condition, which may be new or used; other conditions may also be available.
Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication date
December 1, 1989
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
New
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780824042912
ISBN-10
0824042913
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$96.00
§As reported by publisher
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Love and Freindship and Other Youthful Writings | Far from the Madding Crowd | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Villette | Wuthering Heights | Anna Karenina | Madame Bovary | Middlemarch | Cranford
Love and Freindship and Other Youthful Writings | Far from the Madding Crowd | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Villette | Wuthering Heights | Anna Karenina | Madame Bovary | Middlemarch | Cranford
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âI think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year,â observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedestâand most appealingâwomen in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thackerayâs novel Vanity Fair, a wonderfully satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Scorned for her lack of money and breeding, Becky must use all her wit, charm and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess. From Londonâs ballrooms to the battlefields of Waterloo, the bewitching Becky works her wiles on a gallery of memorable characters, including her lecherous employer, Sir Pitt, his rich sister, Miss Crawley, and Pittâs dashing son, Rawdon, the first of Beckyâs misguided sexual entanglements. Filled with hilarious dialogue and superb characterizations, Vanity Fair is a richly entertaining comedy that asks the reader, âWhich of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?â Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 â 13 September 1815), held the high rank of secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792â1864; second daughter of John Harman Becher, a writer for the East India Company, and his wife Harriet), married Richmond Thackeray on 13 October 1810 after being sent to India in 1809. She was sent abroad after being told that the man she loved, Henry Carmichael-Smyth, had died. This was not true, but her family wanted a better marriage for her than with Carmichael-Smyth, a military man. The truth was unexpectedly revealed in 1812, when Richmond Thackeray unwittingly invited to dinner the supposedly dead Carmichael-Smyth. Richmond Thackeray, born at South Mimms, went to India at the age of sixteen to assume his duties as writer. By 1804 he had fathered a daughter by a native mistress, the mother and daughter being named in his will. Such liaisons being common among gentlemen of the East India Company, it formed no bar to his courting and marrying Anne Becher. After Richmond's death, Henry Carmichael-Smyth married Anne in 1818 and they returned to England the next year...
Editions
Hardcover
With William Makepeace Thackeray |
Reprint edition from Cambridge Univ Pr (May 6, 2013)
9781108060530 | details & prices | 722 pages | List price $125.00
This edition also contains Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
This edition also contains Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
Reprint edition from Modern Library (October 1, 1999)
9780679603214 | details & prices | 731 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $19.95
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
Reissue edition from Everymans Library (September 1, 1991)
9780679405665 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.50 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
The price comparison is for this edition
With Peter L. Shillingsburg (other contributor) |
New edition from Taylor & Francis (December 1, 1989)
9780824042912 | details & prices | List price $96.00
About: âI think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year,â observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedestâand most appealingâwomen in all of literature.
About: âI think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year,â observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedestâand most appealingâwomen in all of literature.
Reprint edition from Buccaneer Books (January 1, 1986)
9780899664064 | details & prices | List price $28.95
About: A ruthless and beautiful young woman strives for social prominence in nineteenth-century English society
About: A ruthless and beautiful young woman strives for social prominence in nineteenth-century English society
Paperback
With William Makepeace Thackeray |
from Createspace Independent Pub (October 9, 2015)
9781517744717 | details & prices | 620 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.40 in. | List price $30.73
This edition also contains Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
About: Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray.
This edition also contains Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
About: Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray.
With William Makepeace Thackeray |
from Createspace Independent Pub (May 21, 2015)
9781512322781 | details & prices | 540 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.22 in. | 1.98 lbs | List price $18.33
This edition also contains Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
This edition also contains Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
With William Makepeace Thackeray |
from Createspace Independent Pub (April 11, 2015)
9781511674942 | details & prices | 700 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.58 in. | List price $23.20
This edition also contains Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
This edition also contains Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
With William Makepeace Thackeray |
Reprint edition from Cambridge Univ Pr (January 3, 2013)
9781108057059 | details & prices | 722 pages | List price $64.99
This edition also contains Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
About: The quintessential satire of life in early nineteenth-century Britain, Vanity Fair is a panoramic tour of English social strata, charting the rise and fall of the opportunistic Becky Sharp.
This edition also contains Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
About: The quintessential satire of life in early nineteenth-century Britain, Vanity Fair is a panoramic tour of English social strata, charting the rise and fall of the opportunistic Becky Sharp.
from Kessinger Pub Co (June 30, 2005)
9781417900312 | details & prices | 444 pages | List price $36.95
About: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
About: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
With William Makepeace Thackery, John Carey |
Reissue edition from Penguin USA (March 1, 2002)
9780140437539 | details & prices | 866 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.50 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $8.00
About: This is Thackeray's rich and gloriously chaotic sketch of English society during the Napoleonic wars.
About: This is Thackeray's rich and gloriously chaotic sketch of English society during the Napoleonic wars.
With Joanna Trollope (other contributor) |
1 edition from Modern Library (May 1, 2001)
9780375757266 | details & prices | 746 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $9.00
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success.
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success.
With John Sutherland (other contributor) |
from Oxford Univ Pr (October 7, 1999)
9780192834430 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.75 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $8.95
About: Presents the nineteenth-century masterpiece about an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
About: Presents the nineteenth-century masterpiece about an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
from Everyman (May 1, 1998)
9780460877251 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 2.00 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $6.95
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
Reissue edition from Bantam Classic & Loveswept (August 1, 1997)
9780553214628 | details & prices | 5.00 × 6.75 × 1.50 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $6.95
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
With John Sutherland, Susan Anderson-Freed |
Reprint edition from Oxford Univ Pr (December 1, 1983)
9780192816429 | details & prices | 4.75 × 7.50 × 1.75 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $7.95
This edition also contains Colorwork Creations: Knit Woodland Inspired Hats, Mittens and Gloves
About: Presents the nineteenth-century masterpiece about an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
This edition also contains Colorwork Creations: Knit Woodland Inspired Hats, Mittens and Gloves
About: Presents the nineteenth-century masterpiece about an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
from New Amer Library (June 1, 1983)
9780451520418 | details & prices | List price $4.95
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
Reissue edition from New Amer Library (January 1, 1983)
9780451524898 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.00 × 1.50 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $7.95
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
About: Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success
Pricing is shown for items sent to or within the U.S., excluding shipping and tax. Please consult the store to determine exact fees. No warranties are made express or implied about the accuracy, timeliness, merit, or value of the information provided. Information subject to change without notice. isbn.nu is not a bookseller, just an information source.