• The grotesque comedy features a social climber who buys dead serfs from the nobles who owned them.

    BBC: News

  • What are the ultimate rules of the social climber?

    FORBES: The Social Climber's Handbook: The Murderous State of Womanhood

  • Coming on the heels of The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), in which a financially strapped and roguish outsider tries vainly to find a place in English society, Vanity Fair paints on a much broader canvass and finds the ultimate social climber in the talented, lovely and ever-conniving Becky Sharp.

    FORBES: Picture This

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