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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray
Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge
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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. Through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.

©2011 Talking Classics (P)2011 De Agostini UK 2010 Classics
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Excellent abridged adaptation of this classic novel. Some fascinating characters, particularly Becky. An entertaining story, full of irony. Good narration.

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