Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray torrent

Category: Adults, Classic, Historical Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: 19th Century Napoleonic Wars Regency

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray
Read by John Castle
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 31 hrs and 1 min
Source: Audible
Files: MP3, chapters
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William Makepeace Thackeray’s classic tale of class, society, and corruption. Vanity Fair takes its title from the place designated as the centre of human corruption in John Bunyan’s 17th-century allegory Pilgrim’s Progress. Receiving popular and critical success on first publication, the novel is considered Thackeray’s masterpiece.


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—military and domestic—are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray’s gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.

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