Vanity Fair, bók
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Vanity Fair, bók.
By William Thackeray.
Retold by Diane Mowat.
Oxford Bookworms Library - Stage 6. 2,500 headwords. Average story length - 104 pages. Average word count - 30,000.
Description: When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortunes soon rise, while Amelia's fall. Greed, ambition, loyalty, folly, wisdom . . . Thackeray's famous novel gives us a witty and satirical picture of English society during the Napoleonic wars.
Oxford University Press.
By William Thackeray.
Retold by Diane Mowat.
Oxford Bookworms Library - Stage 6. 2,500 headwords. Average story length - 104 pages. Average word count - 30,000.
Description: When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortunes soon rise, while Amelia's fall. Greed, ambition, loyalty, folly, wisdom . . . Thackeray's famous novel gives us a witty and satirical picture of English society during the Napoleonic wars.
Oxford University Press.
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