Vanity Fair - Audiobook (Classic Audiobooks)
William Makepeace Thackeray · Classic Audiobooks
Oct 2025 · Golden Age Audiobooks · Narrated by Charles Farrow
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29 hr 11 min
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William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair is a monumental satire of nineteenth-century English society. Subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero," it chronicles the rise and fall of Becky Sharp, a clever, ambitious, and morally ambiguous woman determined to secure wealth and status in a world driven by greed, vanity, and hypocrisy. Alongside her, the virtuous but naïve Amelia Sedley provides a striking contrast, embodying the traditional values of love and loyalty. Through its vivid cast of characters, from aristocrats to soldiers, Thackeray exposes the follies and pretensions of a society obsessed with appearances and material success. His biting wit, sharp observations, and refusal to glorify any single character make the novel both a mirror of Victorian life and a timeless commentary on human weakness. Endlessly entertaining and profoundly insightful, Vanity Fair remains a classic of world literature. Its mixture of humor, irony, and moral questioning continues to captivate readers and listeners, reminding us of the eternal dance between ambition and virtue.
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