A Rescue And A Catastrophe

Vanity Fair (version 2)

by William Makepeace THACKERAY (1811 - 1863)

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 Vagabond Chapter , Am Rhein , Amantium Irae , Eothen , Full of Business and Pleasure , Georgy is Made a Gentleman , In Which the Same Subject is Pursued , In Which Two Lights Are Put Out , In Which We Meet An Old Acquaintance , Our Friend the Major , Returns to the Genteel World , Sunday After the Battle , The Old Piano , Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths