William Makepeace Thackeray

Set during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, this classic gives a satirical picture of a worldly society. The novel revolves around the exploits of Becky Sharp....

Vanity Fair, with its rich cast of characters, takes place on the snakes-and-ladders board of life. Amelia Sedley, daughter of a wealthy merchant, has a loving mother to supervise her courtship....

Set in the reign of Queen Anne, Thackeray's novel follows the troubled progress of Henry Esmond Esq, a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army....

A vast satirical panorama of a materialistic society and a landmark in the history of realistic fiction....

Presenting six BBC Radio adaptations of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray—plus bonus features....

The Rose and The Ring is a satirical work of fantasy fiction by William Makepeace Thackeray, which was originally published in 1854....

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder....

Like Tom Jones before him, Barry Lyndon is one of the most lively and roguish characters in English literature....

Penguin Classics presents William Makepeace Thackeray adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series....

The History of Henry Esmond tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England....

It’s really very simple. You will sell me your eternal soul and in return I shall make you fabulously rich, powerful, talented and famous for your entire Earthly life. Or maybe even eternity.

Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy....

Vanity Fair features two heroines: the faithful, loyal Amelia Sedley, and the beautiful and scheming social climber Becky Sharp....

Ranked second only to Charles Dickens in Victorian era popularity, William Makepeace Thackeray may be a novelist worth rediscoving....

Dos heroínas navegan la clase alta del siglo XIX en esta novela, un ataque satírico directo al corazón de una sociedad loca por el dinero....

One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mobile Becky Sharp and her gentle, good-hearted friend Amelia Sedley as they leave their boarding school and embark upon their lives in Vanity Fair....

Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1907, this volume features ten classic mysteries and ghost stories by Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas de Quincey, Charles Robert Maturin, Laurence Sterne, and William Makepeace Thackeray....

"Nu fik Rebecca sin hævn over disse uforskammede damer. Det var rygtedes i hotellet, at kaptajn Crawley havde ladet sine heste blive hjemme, og da...

"Der er relative snobber, og der er positive snobber. Med positive snobber mener jeg sådanne personer, som er snobbede overalt, hvor de end færdes,...

"Idet Rebecca sagde dette, faldt hun på knæ på en højst tragisk måde, tog sir Pitts barkede sorte hånd mellem sine to hænder (der var hvide og smukke...