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The Book of Snobs

Author
William Makepeace Thackeray
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
6 hours 17 minutes
ISBN
9781802569360
Published
17 October 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • coming-of-age
  • Victorian society
  • literary ambition
  • romance
  • social class
  • moral growth
  • satire
  • friendship
  • disillusionment
  • realism

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Description

Thackeray catalogues snobs high and low: rank-chasers, club bores, and anyone who worships a title over a person. Sharp comic sketches. Spoken as usable satire when you want snobbery named and mocked.

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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