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Vanity Fair [AudioGo]
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: John Castle
- Length: 31 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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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 the impoverished but beautiful and devious Becky Sharp who craves wealth and a position in society. Calculating and determined to succeed, she charms, deceives and manipulates everyone she meets. A novel of early 19th-century English society, it takes its title from the place designated as the centre of human corruption in John Bunyan's 17th-century allegory.
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Magnificent Story Well Told
- By Kymberley Beal on 05-02-2023
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Vanity Fair [AudioGo]
- Narrated by: John Castle
- Length: 31 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-02-2009
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
- A Novel without a Hero
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 32 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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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. Becky Sharp, an orphan, has to use her wit, charm, and resourcefulness to escape from her destiny as a governess. This she does ruthlessly, musing: "I think I could become a good woman, if I had £5,000 a year."
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An old-fashioned but enjoyable story
- By Jen on 06-05-2019
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Vanity Fair
- A Novel without a Hero
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 32 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-03-2013
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
- A Novel Without a Hero
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 29 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Generally considered to be his masterpiece, Vanity Fair is Thackeray's resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero", it traces the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women: the scheming opportunist Becky Sharp, one of literature's most resourceful, engaging, and amoral heroines, and her foil, the faithful, naive Amelia Sedley.
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Vanity Fair
- A Novel Without a Hero
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 29 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 27-03-2006
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: William Makepeace
- Narrated by: Emma Fielding, Stephen Fry
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Stephen Fry narrates this full-cast dramatisation of the famous Victorian comic novel, a portrait of English society and its mores, with Emma Fielding as Becky Sharp. Duration: 5 hours approx.
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Vanity Fair
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Emma Fielding, Stephen Fry
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2016
- Language: English
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Barry Lyndon
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Like Tom Jones before him, Barry Lyndon is one of the most lively and roguish characters in English literature. He may now be best known through the colorful Stanley Kubrick film released in 1975, but it is Thackeray who, in true 19th-century style, shows him best.
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Barry Lyndon
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-01-2013
- Language: English
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W.M. Thackeray: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Vanity Fair, Barry Lyndon, The Newcomes, Pendennis & The Yellowplush Papers
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Emma Fielding, Toby Jones, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Best known today for his comic masterpiece, Vanity Fair, W. M. Thackeray was regarded in his time as the only rival to his contemporary, Charles Dickens. This collection includes a selection of his finest satirical fiction, as well as two fascinating programmes exploring his life and writings.
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Great performances. Top quality.
- By Anonymous on 07-10-2023
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W.M. Thackeray: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Vanity Fair, Barry Lyndon, The Newcomes, Pendennis & The Yellowplush Papers
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Emma Fielding, Toby Jones, Andrew Scott, Sheila Hancock, Adam Buxton, Maureen Lipman, full cast
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 29-09-2022
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
- Length: 32 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Napoleon has England on edge. For the cunning and conniving Becky Sharp, it’s an opportunity to take advantage of the chaos and improve her lowly station. Her friend Amelia Sedley, a blue-blood pawn, affords Becky entrée into the moneyed class. As the guileless Amelia pines for a rakish soldier, the ruthless Becky climbs upward, setting the stage for a domestic battlefield of greed, ambition, deception, and dizzying reversals of love and fortune.
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Vanity Fair (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
- Length: 32 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 23-06-2020
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Al Murray, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Comedian Al Murray plays his great-great-great-grandfather William Makepeace Thackeray as the unreliable narrator in this radical makeover of his ancestor’s celebrated satire on class, sex, money, hypocrisy and snobbery in 19th-century England. As the curtain rises on our ‘story without a hero’, moneyless Becky Sharp leaves school with her upper-class best friend Amelia Sedley. Clever, cunning and ambitious, Becky is determined to make her way in Regency society - and she’ll trample on anyone who gets in her way.
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Vanity Fair
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Al Murray, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 25-07-2019
- Language: English
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The History of Pendennis
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
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In Pendennis, William Makepeace Thackeray skillfully shows the coming of age of Arthur Pendennis, a young gentleman trying to make his way in the world. Pen's difficulties in finding his place in the difficult maze of social obstacles are created to some extent by his being raised in the country and being from an ancient though impoverished family. We follow his course from the village in which he was raised via Oxbridge to London, meeting the most memorable characters, falling in and out of love, navigating the difficulties of society, and hopefully finally arriving at a happy end.
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Vanity Fair [Tantor]
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Vanity Fair features two heroines: the faithful, loyal Amelia Sedley, and the beautiful and scheming social climber Becky Sharp. It also engages a huge cast of wonderful supporting characters as the novel spins from Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies to affairs of love and war on the Continent to liaisons in the dazzling ballrooms of London.
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Great reading of a 19th century masterpiece
- By David on 18-07-2018
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Vanity Fair [Tantor]
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 29-07-2008
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff
- Length: 35 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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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–the social-climbing, wealth-obsessed world of Regency England in the time of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Vanity Fair
- Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff
- Length: 35 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 02-02-2023
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Lillian Rachel, Amanda Friday, Anna Grace, and others
- Length: 35 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Vanity Fair centers on the young Becky Sharp and her dear friend Amelia Sedley during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Rebecca Sharp is the daughter of an art teacher and a French dancer, being ambitious, intelligent, and strong willed in order to get what she wants out of society. She is often touted as amoral and an anti-heroine. Alternately, her friend Amelia is kind, good natured, and born into wealth. The interwoven fortunes of the two women play out among a backdrop of social skirmishes and human afflictions of pride and ego.
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Vanity Fair
- Narrated by: Lillian Rachel, Amanda Friday, Anna Grace, Jon Bolitho-Jones, Andy Harrington, Tyler Hyrchuk, Tim Sailer
- Length: 35 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-07-2025
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair (version 2)
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Step into the vibrant world of Regency England with Vanity Fair, one of the pinnacle works of Victorian literature. Follow the ambitious and cunning Becky Sharp as she navigates the treacherous waters of social status and wealth, alongside her kind-hearted friend Amelia Sedley. From their days at boarding school to the bustling society of Vanity Fair, this tale reveals the complexities of ambition, friendship, and the pursuit of happiness during the Napoleonic Wars. - Summary by Helen Taylor
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Vanity Fair
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero is a brilliant satire by William Makepeace Thackeray that explores the intricacies of early 19th-century English society. Originally published as a serial over 20 monthly parts from January 1847 to July 1848, Thackeray aimed to entertain while also providing insightful commentary on the human condition. The novels engaging narrator and Thackerays correspondence reveal his intention to offer both amusement and reflection. Today, Vanity Fair stands as a classic of English literature, though some critics note its structural challenges, including occasional ...
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Vanity Fair
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Penguin Classics presents William Makepeace Thackeray adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Robert Hardy. 'Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?' No...
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Vanity Fair
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 26-07-2012
- Language: English
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The History of Henry Esmond
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
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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. Enamoured of the Jacobite Lady Castlewood and her wayward daughter Beatrix, he distinguishes himself in Marlborough's campaigns against Louis XIV, but comes to grief in an ingenious but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to depose George I in favour of the Old Pretender.
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The History of Henry Esmond
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-10-2019
- Language: English
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La fiera della vanità
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray, Riccardo Mainardi
- Narrated by: Riccardo Ricobello
- Length: 38 hrs and 12 mins
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Vanity Fair (1848), l'opera cui Thackeray deve la fama, è costruito intorno alle storie parallele delle due protagoniste femminili: la spregiudicata Becky Sharp, avventuriera senza scrupoli disposta alla simulazione e al raggiro per crearsi una posizione nel mondo, e la virtuosa quanto insipida Amelia Sedley, destinata a una vita di rinunce e sottomissione nonostante sia cresciuta nell'agio.
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La fiera della vanità
- Narrated by: Riccardo Ricobello
- Length: 38 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-04-2026
- Language: Italian
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The Devil’s Wager
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 26 mins
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The great author of Vanity Fair and The Luck Of Barry Lyndon was born in India in 1811. At age 5 his father died and his mother sent him back to England. His education was of the best but he himself seemed unable to apply his talents to a rigorous work ethic. However, once he harnessed his talents the works flowed in novels, articles, short stories, sketches and lectures.
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The Devil’s Wager
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2024
- Language: English
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Barry Lyndon
- The Lost Manuscript
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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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. Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rake and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. The novel is narrated by Lyndon himself, who functions as a quintessentially unreliable narrator.
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Barry Lyndon
- The Lost Manuscript
- Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 16-02-2023
- Language: English
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The Rose and the Ring
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: DJ Cardello
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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The Rose and The Ring is a satirical work of fantasy fiction by William Makepeace Thackeray, which was originally published in 1854. It is the tale of a fairy, a king of two kingdoms, their offspring, and an old woman. Set in the fictional countries of Paflagonia and Crim Tartary, it criticizes the attitudes of the British upper class and challenges their ideals of beauty and marriage. The story revolves around the lives and fortunes of four royal cousins, Princesses Angelica and Rosalba, and Princes Bulbo and Giglio. The narrative is filled with humor.
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The Rose and the Ring
- Narrated by: DJ Cardello
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2020
- Language: English
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