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Vanity Fair
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
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This book comes with an introduction and notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', "Vanity Fair" follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives.
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Vanity Fair
- Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 05-07-11
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
- A Novel without a Hero
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 32 hrs and 18 mins
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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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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
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Al Murray, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Comedian Al Murray plays his great-great-great-grandfather William Makepeace Thackeray as the unreliable narrator in this radical makeover of his ancestor’s celebrated satire on class, sex, money, hypocrisy and snobbery in 19th-century England. As the curtain rises on our ‘story without a hero’, moneyless Becky Sharp leaves school with her upper-class best friend Amelia Sedley. Clever, cunning and ambitious, Becky is determined to make her way in Regency society - and she’ll trample on anyone who gets in her way.
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Vanity Fair
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Al Murray, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 25-07-19
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
- A Novel Without a Hero
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 29 hrs and 51 mins
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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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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)
- Written 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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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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The Rose and the Ring
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: DJ Cardello
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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The Rose and The Ring is a satirical work of fantasy fiction by William Makepeace Thackeray, which was originally published in 1854. It is the tale of a fairy, a king of two kingdoms, their offspring, and an old woman. Set in the fictional countries of Paflagonia and Crim Tartary, it criticizes the attitudes of the British upper class and challenges their ideals of beauty and marriage. The story revolves around the lives and fortunes of four royal cousins, Princesses Angelica and Rosalba, and Princes Bulbo and Giglio. The narrative is filled with humor.
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The Rose and the Ring
- Narrated by: DJ Cardello
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 21-03-20
- Language: English
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Mémoires d'un valet de pied
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Pierre Prévost
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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Thackeray, à travers son personnage domestique, fustige avec ironie la société britannique de son temps, et en particulier l'aristocratie de naissance, classe supérieure souvent trop désargentée pour tenir son rang par des moyens honnêtes, mais toujours adulée par l'homme du peuple. Vanité, cupidité et snobisme sont les causes principales des maux qui s'abattent sur les personnages, lesquels, dans leur dégénérescente confusion, perdent toute conscience des valeurs morales.
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Mémoires d'un valet de pied
- Narrated by: Pierre Prévost
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release Date: 06-05-13
- Language: french
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William Makepeace Thackeray - The Short Stories
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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In this volume we examine some of the short stories of William Makepeace Thackeray. The great author of Vanity Fair and The Luck of Barry Lyndon was born in India in 1811. At age five his father died, and his mother sent him back to England. His education was of the best, but he himself seemed unable to apply his talents to a rigorous work ethic. After a few years of marriage his wife began to suffer from depression and over the years became detached from reality.
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William Makepeace Thackeray - The Short Stories
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 26-02-19
- Language: English
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Theatre Royal - Becky Sharpe - Vanity Fair & The Overcoat: Episode 20
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray, Nikolai Gogol
- Narrated by: Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier
- Length: 57 mins
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Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Robert Morley and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.
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Theatre Royal - Becky Sharpe - Vanity Fair & The Overcoat: Episode 20
- Narrated by: Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier
- Length: 57 mins
- Release Date: 13-02-19
- Language: English
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Harry Esmond's Boyhood
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Glenn Hascall
- Length: 18 mins
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Ranked second only to Charles Dickens in Victorian era popularity, William Makepeace Thackeray may be a novelist worth rediscoving. This is a great introductory story of the key figure in the brilliant novel Henry Esmond. Classic literature - classic writer - classic story. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.
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Harry Esmond's Boyhood
- Narrated by: Glenn Hascall
- Length: 18 mins
- Release Date: 07-05-14
- Language: English
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Becky Sharpe
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Margaret Lockwood
- Length: 27 mins
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William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero was published in 1847. Although without a hero, it definitely has an anti-heroine in the form of Becky Sharpe, played by Margaret Lockwood.
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Becky Sharpe
- Narrated by: Margaret Lockwood
- Length: 27 mins
- Release Date: 24-07-15
- Language: English
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 22 mins
- Release Date: 04-12-13
- Language: English
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Jahrmarkt des Lebens
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Else Hackenberg, Marianne Kehlau, Heinz Klingenberg,
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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Die Figuren, die diesen Jahrmarkt bevölkern, sind die Mitglieder jener Gesellschaft, die im viktorianischen Zeitalter noch ein festumrissener Begriff war. Der Autor leuchtete hinter die Fassade des sich so edel gebärdenden Jahrmarkts und zeigt, dass auch hier "wahre Gentlemen" vielleicht seltener zu finden sind, als mancher denkt. Das Hörspiel, das auf dem Roman "Vanity Fair" (deutscher Titel: "Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeiten") beruht, enthält die fünf Hörspielfolgen.
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Jahrmarkt des Lebens
- Narrated by: Else Hackenberg, Marianne Kehlau, Heinz Klingenberg, Josef Dahmen, Gisela Zoch, Gert Westphal
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 09-06-17
- Language: german
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The Yellowplush Papers (Classic Serial)
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray, Stephen Wyatt - adaptation
- Narrated by: Adam Buxton, Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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Series of five comic tales by William Makepeace Thackeray, adapted by Stephen Wyatt, recounting the rise and fall of early-19th century footman Charles Yellowplush.
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The Yellowplush Papers (Classic Serial)
- Narrated by: Adam Buxton, Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release Date: 09-05-13
- Language: English
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The History of Henry Esmond
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Edmond O'Brien
- Length: 53 mins
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The History of Henry Esmond tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. A typical example of Victorian historical novels, Thackeray's work of historical fiction tells its tale against the backdrop of late 17th- and early 18th-century England — specifically, major events surrounding the English Restoration — and utilizes characters both real (but dramatized) and imagined.
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The History of Henry Esmond
- Narrated by: Edmond O'Brien
- Length: 53 mins
- Release Date: 18-05-10
- Language: English
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Barry Lyndon
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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Barry Lyndon, first serialized in 1844, is a swashbuckling romp through the aristocratic Europe of the 18th century. The central character, a roguish Irishman, narrates most of the story in the first person, relating his adventures as a soldier in both the British and Prussian armies; as a gambler and confidence man under the guidance of his uncle, a practiced fraud; and as a fortune hunting gigolo in search of wealthy widows and heiresses.
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Barry Lyndon
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release Date: 23-05-12
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair
- Penguin English Library
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Penguin Classics presents William Makepeace Thackeray adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Robert Hardy’s Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or, having it, is satisfied? 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.
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Vanity Fair
- Penguin English Library
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 26-07-12
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair [Tantor]
- Written 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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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 [AudioGo]
- Written 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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Vanity Fair [AudioGo]
- Narrated by: John Castle
- Length: 31 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 09-02-09
- Language: English
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Fräulein Shums Mann
- Aus den Memoiren Yellowplushs
- Written by: William Makepeace Thackeray, Ilse Hecht
- Narrated by: Andreas Herrler
- Length: 51 mins
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Der Diener Yellowplush lebt zusammen mit seinem Herrn Frederick Altamont zur Untermiete bei der Familie Shum in London. Frederick Altamont hat sich unsterblich in Mary, die jüngste Tochter der Familie, verliebt und Yellowplush hilft den beiden, so dass diese sich ungestört treffen können. Endlich kommt es zu der lang ersehnten Hochzeit, doch Altamont verbirgt ein Geheimnis vor seiner Frau, welches das Glück des jungen Paares zu trüben droht. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) war ein britischer Schriftsteller. Thackeray wurde als Sohn eines Kolonialbeamten in Indien geboren.
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Fräulein Shums Mann
- Aus den Memoiren Yellowplushs
- Narrated by: Andreas Herrler
- Length: 51 mins
- Release Date: 05-08-19
- Language: german
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