Vanity Fair (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Vanity Fair (version 2), credited to William Makepeace Thackeray, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. Read in English by Helen Taylor 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: Vanity Fair (version 2)
• Author credits: William Makepeace Thackeray
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 67
• Listed recording duration: 35:18:22

Catalogue topics

• thackeray

Opening tracks: first 24 of 67

1. 01 - Chiswick Mall — 20:44
2. 02 - In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign — 27:12
3. 03 - Rebecca is in Presence of the Enemy — 20:28
4. 04 - The Green Silk Purse — 37:12
5. 05 - Dobbin of Ours — 32:00
6. 06 - Vauxhall — 36:32
7. 07 - Crawley of Queen's Crawley — 21:39
8. 08 - Private and Confidential — 27:13
9. 09 - Family Portraits — 21:28
10. 10 - Miss Sharp Begins To Make Friends — 17:25
11. 11 - Arcadian Simplicity — 44:03
12. 12 - Quite a Sentimental Chapter — 25:32
13. 13 - Sentimental and Otherwise — 35:45
14. 14 - Miss Crawley At Home — 53:49
15. 15 - In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time — 26:27
16. 16 - The Letter on the Pincushion — 25:41
17. 17 - How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano — 24:30
18. 18 - Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought — 37:30
19. 19 - Miss Crawley At Nurse — 31:46
20. 20 - In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen — 27:52
21. 21 - A Quarrel About an Heiress — 25:45
22. 22 - A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon — 25:15
23. 23 - Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass — 17:59
24. 24 - In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible — 38:37

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