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"The eve of Waterloo, and all Europe is in arms. On the outcome of thisgreat struggle will hang the fate of thrones. But in a hundred Londondrawing rooms a more bitter conflict rages: the battle for social supremacy.Money, sex and slander are the weapons in this war, fops and fineladies its competing squadrons. The father sells his daughter for acoat of arms: the son casts off his sweetheart for a fortune. Everylanguid soir?e sees a reputation ruined; every elegant party is ascramble for patronage.In the ruthless warfare of vanity and pretension, Becky Sharp is themaster-strategist. Come from nowhere to take the social world bystorm, she is beautiful, brilliant and very, very dangerous. Too lateLondon wakes up to the peril that confronts it. Who is this upstart?Where has she come from and what does she want? Who is going tobring this female Napoleon to her Waterloo?The most comprehensive paperback edition available, withintroduction, notes, selected criticism,