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Vanity Fair
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: John Castle
- Length: 31 hrs and 1 min
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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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A glorious romp of a novel!
- By Clare on 24-08-09
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Vanity Fair
- Narrated by: John Castle
- Length: 31 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-02-09
- 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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A surprisingly modern novel.
- By Mim C. on 15-03-18
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Vanity Fair
- A Novel without a Hero
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 32 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-03-13
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
- Penguin Classics
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Tom Bateman
- Length: 34 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.
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- By Anthony Bouchier on 29-01-24
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Vanity Fair
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Tom Bateman
- Length: 34 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 26-11-20
- 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
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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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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: 29-09-22
- 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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an absorbing and very witty read
- By Tom on 26-05-07
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Vanity Fair
- A Novel Without a Hero
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 29 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 27-03-06
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
- Length: 32 hrs and 52 mins
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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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Wonderful narration
- By Eurydice on 15-01-23
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Vanity Fair (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
- Length: 32 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Philippe Duquenoy
- Length: 27 hrs and 51 mins
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Set in Regency England, Vanity Fair follows the lives of two young women from drastically different backgrounds. Becky Sharp is the daughter of a lowly art teacher while Amelia Sedley is the daughter of a wealthy investor. Although the two women are worlds apart in personality and background, Becky and Amelia become friends while in finishing school. When Amelia invites Becky to her family home, events are set in motion that result in both tragedy and fortune.
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Simply excellent
- By Alan Hughes on 03-10-18
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Vanity Fair
- Narrated by: Philippe Duquenoy
- Length: 27 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 11-05-17
- Language: English
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The Forsyte Saga
- 4 Full Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations
- By: John Galsworthy
- Narrated by: full cast, Dirk Bogarde, Diana Quick, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
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First broadcast in 1990, this monumental adaptation of John Galsworthy's Nobel Prize-winning novel series was a radio event. It was the most expensive drama serial ever produced, featured one of the biggest, most star-studded casts and dominated the Radio 4 schedules for more than five months, attracting more than a million listeners each week. Comprising all nine books in Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles, it spans 50 years - from 1886 to 1936 - and tells the irresistible story of an upper-class dynasty torn apart by a terrible feud.
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Excellent - Listened Several Times
- By Highlight on 07-04-22
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The Forsyte Saga
- 4 Full Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations
- Narrated by: full cast, Dirk Bogarde, Diana Quick, Amanda Redman, Michael Williams, Maurice Denham, Sophie Thompson, Alan Howard, Michael Hordern
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 16-12-21
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair [Tantor]
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
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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 book, well read
- By Keith on 19-05-10
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Vanity Fair [Tantor]
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 29-07-08
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 33 hrs and 59 mins
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Vanity Fair is a satirical novel of manners which takes place during, and in the decade after, the battle of Waterloo in 1815. The various scenes in the novel range across Europe and England. It was first published in serial form beginning in 1847. The work is by turns witty, scintillating, brutally realistic, tragic, humorous, and always fascinating. The title of the book stems from Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress”, where Vanity is a town along the pilgrim’s route, and which holds an eternal fair of the vanities. It is a place where people are ensnared by worldly things.
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Good mellow voice but given to odd pronunciation of many words
- By Anonymous User on 02-06-20
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Vanity Fair
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 33 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-10-18
- Language: English
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La feria de las vanidades [Vanity Fair]
- By: William M. Thackeray, Flora Casas Vaca - traductor, Alfonso Nadal - traductor
- Narrated by: Eugenio Gómez
- Length: 31 hrs and 8 mins
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En el recinto de la Feria se erige suntuoso uno de los mejores retratos de la sociedad inglesa de principios del siglo XIX, cuyo director de escena de mirada desencantada no es otro que William M. Thackeray, maestro en el arte de crear personajes femeninos. Así, pronto veremos pisar el escenario a dos mujeres inolvidables: la dulce y apocada Amelia Sedley y la inteligente y ambiciosa Becky Sharp cobran vida en un juego fascinante, lleno de trampas y de emoción con las Guerras Napoleónicas como trasfondo, en una obra magistral de la literatura de todos los tiempos: La feria de las vanidades.
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La feria de las vanidades [Vanity Fair]
- Narrated by: Eugenio Gómez
- Length: 31 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 27-07-23
- Language: Spanish
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