Books published by publisher Easton Press

Should read: No Dust Jacket. Full leather boards with gilt lettering, decorations and edges. This is a book originally sold by The Easton Press, 47 Richards Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06857 as part of its "100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition" collection which then evolved into "The Greatest Books Ever Written" collection. Many of the books carry a 1979 copyright but may have been printed in different years with different cover art. This is a leather-bound volume featuring 22kt gold accents, illustrations, moire fabric endsheets, gilded page ends, and a satin-ribbon page marker. Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.

This is a novel primarily set in the 1870's, as Reconstruction ends and a new era of violence against African-Americans is beginning. But the story's background, told in flashbacks, is set in the 1850's and involves the escape of the slave Sethe to Ohio. When her master catches up with her, Sethe kills her newborn daughter - who will be known as Beloved. A powerful, gripping story, one of the author's masterpieces.