Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayIn William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, no one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles military and domestic are fought, fortunes made and lost.

because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future

and starting the car

Most significantly of all he meets a dark-haired girl with sparkling eyes and a tiny beauty spot on her chin: the mysterious Albertine

and a spiritual path

When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot

it is her husband who reports her disappearance to the detective Sciancalepre

explaining how this wondrous invention works and what it is capable of

But something has ignited within me

manufacturing

but its rich

or a fancy new clinical drug trial

'But I ran up the broken stairway