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        Vanity Fair


        setting

        England

        time

        19th century

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1847

        page count

        867

        difficulty

        Difficult

        main characters

        Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley

        Rip's impressions

        first line

        While the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three- cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour.

        last lines

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