The Book Of Snobs Av William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray has always been an author for discriminating literary palettes. Few would deny that he is the finest literary stylist of his time. Thackeray was at his most Thackerayan in what he called `small beer chronicles': the little...

Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair,...

Ingen er bedre utstyrt i kampen for velstand og jordisk suksess enn den sjarmerende og hensynsløse Becky Sharp. Hun trosser sin fattige bakgrunn for å klatre på klassestigen. Beckys sentimentale kompanjong Amelia, derimot, lengter bare etter den ubehøvlede...

A masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature's best-loved characters, Becky Sharp. <br/> <br/>Ruthless social climber and irrepressible anti-hero Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her position in Society, from impoverished...