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The Confessions of Becky Sharp (2011) Lady Crawley (aka Becky Sharp) disdaining to be 'the rung on which that creeping hypocrite' Thackeray climbs the literary ladder, reveals the true story of her life, from her birth in Versailles during the Revolution to her incarceration in a convent in rural France. She tells of her life as governess to the daughters of Sir Pitt Crawley, her marriage and separation from his son Rawdon, her love affair with Lord Steyne, her travels in Europe and her subsequent fall from grace. Now gouty and ageing, a disinherited social pariah, she is reduced to selling her story to keep the wolf from the door. ________________________ 'A most impressive performance, a well-nigh perfectly pitched and inflected stylistic pastiche' - Robert Lambolle, Reading and Writing * - 'An extremely well-written pastiche, true to the form, structure and syntax of Thackeray's writing' - Jocelyn Ferguson, The Literary Consultancy * 'A terrific read ' Double-click to start typing Double-click to start typing BLOG Lady Crawley (aka Becky Sharp) disdaining to be 'the rung on which that creeping hypocrite' Thackeray climbs the literary ladder, reveals the true story of her life, from her birth in Versailles during the Revolution to her incarceration in a convent in rural France. She tells of her life as a governess to the daughters of Sir Pitt Crawley, her marriage and separation from his son Rawdon, her love affair with Lord Steyne, her travels around Europe and her subsequent fall from grace. Now gouty and ageing, a disinherited social pariah, she is reduced to selling her her story to keep the wolf from the door.
About the Author: Double-click to start typing David has been published in such diverse places as The Times Literary Supplement, Essays in Criticism, The Brontë Society Transactions, The Thoreau Journal Quarterly, The Journal of Narrative Technique, Didaskolas, The Use of English, Children's Literature in Education, Peace and Freedom, Krax, Quartos, newbooks and The Freethinker. In 1977 he edited Eight American Stories for Longman. His first novel, Boy Among Men appeared in 1988, followed by Paris Bound, a road novel of a journey from Morocco to England taken by a professor and his female Moslem student. Punching Judy follows the progress of a female juvenile delinquent (as they were called in the 1950s) from a detention centre through her career as a pugilist, taking on all comers, men and women, both in the ring and out. In complete contrast The Confessions of Becky Sharp ( 2011)is told from the viewpoint of Becky, a charming and cunning adventuress who climbs the social ladder into aristocratic circles. It is a sequel, a prequel and an alternative version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. David James is now a full time writer of fiction, his latest works being Charles Dickens and the Night Visitors (2012) and The Scholar's Tale (2014). He has a grown-up family and lives in the United Kingdom in Sutton, Surrey with his second wife and two children, Ligaya, a Goldsmiths College, University of London graduate, now working for her bar exams and John graduating in May this year at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. Dave has conducted several self-publishing workshops at the Winchester Writers Conference. S-P is the best way to get published NOW. You set the agenda, the layout, the fonts, the appearance, the date of publication, the price. You then have to promote and sell it. It takes energy, nerve and cash, but you are master of your own ship. At the Rochester Dickens Bicentennial he spoke on Dickens and read from his novel, Charles Dickens and the Night Visitors (2012) In July 2011 David was again a Speaker at the Winchester Writers Conference, this time delivering a talk on sequels and fictional biography. He has given occasional talks on writing and publishing to writers circles and is currently a member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (Alli).


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  • ISBN-13: 9781497381186
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 380
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 557 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1497381185
  • Publisher Date: 26 Apr 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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