A Little Dinner at Timmins's
The Timmins are a young English couple who are looking for a place in society. In order to achieve this, they organize an exclusive dinner with the highlights of London society. The scarce experience of...
THACKERAY, William M.
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon Esq
Barry Lyndon is a story of some fictitious memories and, at the same time, a picaresque and satiric novel based on history. It narrates the rise and fall of the overly ambitious Redmond Barry, a young...
Vanity Fair, or a Novel without a Hero
A satirical look at worldly society during the Napoleonic Wars. Rebecca (Becky) Sharp is the orphaned daughter of an artist and had no money to her name. Amelia Sedley, however, is the rich daughter of a...