Title: Vanity Fair
Artist: Thackeray / Lapotaire
Label: Naxos Audio Books
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 730099012027
Genre: Classical

Vanity Fair, with it's 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 £5000 a year. Thackeray's story is set at the time of the battle of Waterloo, in which the Sedley fortunes are lost—and Amelia is back to square one—while Becky rises wit.

Tracks:
1.1 Farewell to Chiswick Mall
1.2 Rebecca Sharp
1.3 Collector of Boggley Wollah
1.4 Four Young Persons
1.5 Visit to Vauxhall
1.6 Effect of Rack Punch
1.7 Sir Pitt Crawley
1.8 Alone in the World
1.9 Reletives at the Rectory
1.10 News from Humdrum Hall
1.11 Man of Honor
1.12 Miss Crawley's New Nurse
1.13 Presentable Person
2.1 Married; You're Joking!
2.2 Great Crash
2.3 Black Browed Tyrant
2.4 Under the Hammer
2.5 Married and Happy
2.6 Dobbin's Secret
2.7 Miss Crawley's Joke
2.8 Peggy O'Dowd
2.9 Ostend
2.10 Visit to the Opera
2.11 Snake Among the Flowers
2.12 Joseph in Danger
2.13 Almost Mad with Grief
2.14 Pas de Chevaux, Sacrã©Bleu!
3.1 Rumours Went from Mouth to Mouth
3.2 Two Births and a Death
3.3 Dobbin Delivers a Letter
3.4 Nothing a Year
3.5 Little Rawdon
3.6 News from India
3.7 Funeral at Queen's Crawley
3.8 Glorvina
3.9 Position in Society
3.10 Finest Boy in England
3.11 In Arrears
3.12 Lord Steyne's Generosity
4.1 Starved Out
4.2 In the Hands of the Bailiffs
4.3 I Am Innocent
4.4 Brothers
4.5 We'll Put a Bullet in Him!
4.6 Everthing Is Against Me!
4.7 Announcement to the Press
4.8 Miniature
4.9 Dobbin on the Mend
4.10 England Again
4.11 Reunion
5.1 Jos's Carriage Arrived One Day
5.2 Good Fortune Smiles on Amelia
5.3 Honest Feller
5.4 Summer Tour
5.5 Lady in the Mask
5.6 Vagabond Upon This Earth
5.7 Old Tricks
5.8 Emmy Does Her Duty
5.9 Bigliette, Eccolo Qua!
5.10 It Was Time You Sent for Me

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