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Vanity Fair Volume 1

Author
William Makepeace Thackeray
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
14 hours 25 minutes
ISBN
9781802562316
Published
4 January 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Satire
  • Social climbing
  • High society
  • Ambition
  • Hypocrisy
  • Love
  • Betrayal
  • Fortune
  • Human flaws
  • Naivety

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Description

Step into a vivid panorama of 19th-century English society, where ambition and wit collide. The cunning Becky Sharp and the virtuous Amelia Sedley navigate a world rife with social climbing and moral complexities. As fortunes wane and wax amid the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Thackeray's satirical masterpiece delves into the follies and contradictions of human nature, revealing a timeless tale of ambition and friendship.

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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