![]() ![]() ![]() It all starts when two young friends graduate from finishing school and head off in a carriage together. It drops us right into scandal and intrigue and even whisks us off for a while to the Battle of Waterloo. I can quite understand why Thackeray's readers would have been panting for the next installment. I was soon engrossed in this family drama set between 18, but published as a serial throughout 1847. Here's my choice for the Classic Adaptation in the 2020 Back to the Classics Challenge. We are to choose any novel that's been adapted as a film or TV series, so I thought I'd take the chance to read Vanity Fair and also watch the highly acclaimed BBC series from 2018. A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family. ![]()
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