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Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters; and includes a short essay comparing Austen's Elizabeth and Mr.

Presents Thomas Hardy's novel about a young woman who attempts to restore her family's fortunes, is seduced by a heartless aristocrat, and is punished by society's double standards when she gets a chance at real love; and includes an introduction and explanatory notes.

A satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century featuring Becky Sharp, who must use all her wit, charm, and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess.