Author:
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Smart and beautiful Rebeca comes from a poor painter family. Orphaned at a young age, she suffers discrimination at Pinkerton's School for Girls. After graduation, she uses her beauty and wit to acquire wealth through any means necessary, aiming to climb into high society through speculation and risk-taking. Through trials and tribulations, ups and downs, she ultimately lives a life of obscurity in the British social scene. Around Rebeca, the novel successfully portrays the characters of Emily, George, Roden, Joseph, Miss Crawley, and Dobbin. The original subtitle is "A Novel Without Heroes," and the characters are not simply good or bad; they all possess complex and profound inner lives. Rebeca has become a typical female adventurer of early 19th-century British society.