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Becky Sharp attempts to claw her way out of her poverty-stricken life to scale the heights of English society, set against the Napoleonic Wars in the years following Napoleon's defeat. Adapted from ...
Becky Sharp leaves Miss Pinkerton's school where she grew up to stay with her friend Amelia Sedley in London, and soon gets a job working for Sir Pitt Crawley at his country residence.