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Catherine: A Story

Author
William Makepeace Thackeray
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
6 hours 32 minutes
ISBN
9781802569421
Published
31 October 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • crime
  • morality
  • satire
  • 18th-century England
  • corruption
  • murder
  • vice
  • social critique
  • deception
  • downfall

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Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a darkly satirical novel set in 18th-century England, following the life of Catherine Haller, a young woman drawn into a world of crime and moral decay. Influenced by her criminal family and a ruthless lover, Catherine descends into murder and deceit. Thackeray uses her story to critique romanticized portrayals of vice, offering instead a grim, unflinching look at human corruption and the consequences of moral compromise.

Author

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) wrote Vanity Fair and a satirical England of snobs, soldiers, and Becky Sharp. Born in Calcutta, ruined young, he learned the world as a magazine man and then painted it at novel length. The narrator winks; the damage is real. Thirty-one titles here — more Fair than the one book everyone names. He drew as well as he wrote, and he never quite forgave society for being as silly as it is.

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