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The Fatal Boots

Author
William Makepeace Thackeray
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
1 hour 45 minutes
ISBN
9781802569216
Published
10 October 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • vanity
  • satire
  • social pretension
  • comedy
  • humiliation
  • fashion
  • folly
  • manners
  • 19th-century
  • absurdity

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Description

Bob Stubbs?s credit boots and borrowed title open a comic run of humiliation, debt, and public comeuppance. Spoken as Thackeray when vanity walks in polished leather and limps out broke.

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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