"The eve of Waterloo, and all Europe is in arms. On the outcome of this great struggle will hang the fate of thrones. But in a hundred London drawing rooms a more bitter conflict rages: the battle for social supremacy. Money, sex and slander are the weapons in this war, fops and fine ladies its competing squadrons. The father sells his daughter for a coat of arms: the son casts off his sweetheart for a fortune. Every languid soir?e sees a reputation ruined; every elegant party is a scramble for patronage. In the ruthless warfare of vanity and pretension, Becky Sharp is the master-strategist. Come from nowhere to take the social world by storm, she is beautiful, brilliant and very, very dangerous. Too late London wakes up to the peril that confronts it. Who is this upstart? Where has she come from and what does she want? Who is going to bring this female Napoleon to her Waterloo? The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, notes, selected criticism,
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