穷画家的女儿蓓姬·夏普，自幼失去父母，但绝顶聪明。她以半工半读的方式从寄宿学校毕业后，由一名家庭小教师起步，牢牢抓住每一个机会，削尖了脑袋钻进维多利亚时代的上流社会，成为一颗光芒四射的交际明星。这一尤物的发迹历程，在滑铁卢战役波澜壮阔的历史大背景映衬下，展现了堪称世界文学中最成功的一个女冒险家艺术形象。萨克雷的词锋犀利，机智幽默，解剖人生精妙入微。本书问世将近一百六十年来，一直被誉为一面讽世明镜、一部警世宝典。(Becky Sharp is the daughter of a poor painter, she loses parents in her childhood but she is extremely intelligent. She was graduated from boarding school in work-study program and beginning as a private teacher. She firmly catches every chance and goes out her way to enter the Victorian society and becomes a brilliant social communication star. Her progress to succeed can be called the most successful adventuress artistic image in the world literary history under the magnificent overall background of battle of Waterloo. Thackeray has sharp writing style, he is clever and humor and anatomize life in subtle way. This book is always be honored as not only a mirror which reflects every corner of the world and but also a valuable book owns warning significance since it has been published for 160 years nearly.)