Brilliant anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to climb to society"s loftiest heights and couldn"t be more different from her rich, sweet-natured schoolmate, Amelia Sedley. Their parallel lives are marked by love, lust, marriage, fortune and loss, in all their different guises, as they navigate the corrupt circus of upper-class Regency England.Hailed as a literary masterpiece upon first publication, William Makepeace Thackeray"s Vanity Fair has never waned in popularity and remains a highly entertaining satire of early nineteenth-century high society. This gorgeous edition includes an afterword by the prizewinning author and critic, Henry Hitchings.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector"s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector"s Library are books to love and treasure.