William Makepeace Thackeray eBooks

The book of snob. E-book. Formato EPUB William Makepeace Thackeray   -  Gianluca, 2017  - 

“The Book of the Snobs” is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in Punch magazine as The Snobs of England by one of them. While the word “snob” had been used since the end of the eighteenth century, Thackeray adopted the term to refer to people who look down on others who are “socially inferior” have quickly gained popularity.

Vanity Fair. E-book. Formato EPUB William Makepeace Thackeray   -  Gianluca, 2017  - 

The plot features several characters, of the highest social spheres as the lowest ones, but two stand out on the other: Rebecca (Becky) Sharp and Amelia Sedley. The first is the daughter of a French painter and dancer, and in the struggle for worldly wealth and success, challenges its deprecated background to climb the class scale. The second is a daughter of bourgeois gentlemen, sweet, remorseful, whose only interest is to marry George Osborne, a young man who has been promised since his earliest age. The only stable and honored figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depths to the glorious Thickeray epic epic of love and social adventure.