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This BBC television production is a serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's satire of English society during the Napoleonic wars. In the first episode, destitute orphan Becky Sharp moves to London to stay with her firm friend Amelia Sedley. She soon finds employment and opportunity as a governess for Sir Pitt Crawley.

This BBC television production is a serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's satire of English society during the Napoleonic wars. In the fourth episode, the Battle of Waterloo is about to begin. Brussels is in chaos and life is about to change for everyone.

This BBC television production is a serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's satire of English society during the Napoleonic wars. In the third episode, Becky and Rawdon are short of money, but are being ignored by polite society.

Photographs selected are of people much seen or talked about at that time -- leaders in the world of literature, theater, art, music, sport, politics, and society. Also chosen were pictures of celebrities very much of that era.

This book is a satire of early 19th century British society. A bewitching beauty who bends men to her will using charm, sex, and guile. An awkward man who remains loyal to his friends, even when those friends don't deserve his affection. A mother who cannot get over the loss of her husband and devotes her life to her child. Though written in 1847-48, William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair is peopled by types who remain familiar today. The novel's...