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`Vanity Fair'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Chris Hewitt
The term "B.S." could have been invented for Becky Sharp.
Sharp is the duplicitous heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" and of the not-entirely-successful Reese Witherspoon movie based on it. We meet her as an impoverished child, but things start to look up when Witherspoon slips into Becky's crinolines. The adult Becky is a sharp cookie who learns early that the money Jane Austen's heroines seek will not make her happy and that the secret of life is to figure out what will.
"Vanity Fair" is set 200 years ago, at about the same time as the Austen novels, but, instead of the money/love axis that obsessed ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, `Vanity Fair'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)