BROADCASTS.com

Vanity Fair (version 2)

by William Makepeace THACKERAY (1811 - 1863)

A Cynical Chapter

One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mobile Becky Sharp and her gentle, good-hearted friend Amelia Sedley as they leave their boarding school and embark upon their lives in Vanity Fair – the social climbing, wealth-obsessed world of Regency England in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. - Summary by Helen Taylor

---

Listen next episodes of Vanity Fair (version 2):
A Rescue And A Catastrophe , A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire , A Vagabond Chapter , Am Rhein , Amantium Irae , Between Hampshire and London , Contains a Vulgar Incident , Eothen , Full of Business and Pleasure , Gaunt House , Georgy is Made a Gentleman , In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader , In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family , In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors , In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself In A Most Amiable Light , In Which the Reader has to Double the Cape , In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company , In Which the Same Subject is Pursued , In Which Two Lights Are Put Out , In Which we Enjoy Three Courses and a Desert , In Which We Meet An Old Acquaintance , Our Friend the Major , Returns to the Genteel World , Struggles and Trials , Sunday After the Battle , The Old Piano , Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths , Which Treats of the Osborne Family