Vanity Fair (version 2)


Gelesen von Helen Taylor

(4.8 stars; 247 reviews)

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 (35 hr 18 min)

Kapitel

Chiswick Mall 20:44 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign 27:12 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Rebecca is in Presence of the Enemy 20:28 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
The Green Silk Purse 37:12 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Dobbin of Ours 32:00 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Vauxhall 36:32 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Crawley of Queen's Crawley 21:39 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Private and Confidential 27:13 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Family Portraits 21:28 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Miss Sharp Begins To Make Friends 17:25 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Arcadian Simplicity 44:03 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Quite a Sentimental Chapter 25:32 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Sentimental and Otherwise 35:45 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Miss Crawley At Home 53:49 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time 26:27 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
The Letter on the Pincushion 25:41 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano 24:30 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought 37:30 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Miss Crawley At Nurse 31:46 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen 27:52 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
A Quarrel About an Heiress 25:45 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon 25:15 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass 17:59 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible 38:37 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton 56:48 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Between London and Chatham 23:19 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment 19:05 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries 27:24 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Brussels 38:35 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
The Girl I Left Behind Me 27:52 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister 35:42 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close 49:16 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious About Her 31:42 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
James Crawley’s Pipe is Put Out 50:14 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Widow and Mother 33:22 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
How to Live Well on Nothing a Year 25:36 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
The Subject Continued 43:38 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
A Family in a Very Small Way 43:46 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
A Cynical Chapter 28:14 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family 25:20 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors 33:59 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Which Treats of the Osborne Family 22:07 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which the Reader has to Double the Cape 27:35 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire 30:25 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Between Hampshire and London 26:48 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Struggles and Trials 24:01 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Gaunt House 25:06 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company 33:14 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which we Enjoy Three Courses and a Desert 21:25 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Contains a Vulgar Incident 27:19 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader 54:40 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself In A Most Amiable Light 29:14 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
A Rescue And A Catastrophe 26:01 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Sunday After the Battle 23:56 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which the Same Subject is Pursued 43:30 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Georgy is Made a Gentleman 34:54 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Eothen 24:22 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Our Friend the Major 32:09 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
The Old Piano 31:19 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Returns to the Genteel World 16:58 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which Two Lights Are Put Out 40:15 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Am Rhein 28:56 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
In Which We Meet An Old Acquaintance 32:35 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
A Vagabond Chapter 47:08 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Full of Business and Pleasure 22:34 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Amantium Irae 44:09 Gelesen von Helen Taylor
Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths 51:26 Gelesen von Helen Taylor

Bewertungen

Timeless novel, excellent reader


(5 stars)

I have been waiting for months for this second version of VF to come out. Because the free books on this app are from the nonprofit Librivox, the first version of an audio book is often not so well read. I check the Librivox.org website catalog to make a selection and then listen to it on this app. Helen Taylor is a brilliant reader who brings the story to life from the first sentence. Vanity Fair is one of the great 19th century classics, and she does it great justice. I am going to look for more of her readings. Have fun!


(5 stars)

This production of "Vanity Fair" earns every superlative: outstanding, superb, extraordinary, insuperable. I've listened to dozens of audiobooks, mostly ones I've paid for, and have happily noted the generally high quality of the medium. Helen Taylor's performance rises to the highest level and stays there throughout this long, wonderful novel. Her characterizations, pronunciation (including of other languages), inflection, pacing, and other acting and reading qualities are nothing short of astonishing. Truly, I am grateful and cannot recommend this audiobook more highly.

Superb reading! Absolutely superb!


(5 stars)

I’ve read Vanity Fair twice, and yet this beautiful reading showed me more than I had discovered myself. This book is two hundred years old, yet still full of basic truths about human nature - it just glows. (It’s the most fabulous piece of sarc, also.) I wish that every person unfortunate enough to have seen the trashy, false, shallow Reese Witherspoon film will be able to read or hear this marvelous work. Thank you, Helen Taylor. Superb reading. (Why the French wigs, Librivox?)

Amazing!


(5 stars)

Beautifully read. The novel is given a proper attention to all details, every character is given a specific tone and voice in regards to their own personality. Every nuance in speech is attend to which only makes reading and hearing the novel a greater experience. Excellent job!


(5 stars)

This witty and wise story about human nature is read to perfection by Helen Taylor. The book is quite long and I loved going into the lives of the characters and walking along with them. Thackeray must have been quite an amazing person, I loved his wry observations.

fabulous reader!


(4 stars)

this book nearly drove me to madness with the villainous narcissist destructive behavior of Rebecca and Oliver ( forgot his name) the utter denial of those around them. The author did a great job of capturing their behavior though. I kept hoping for true repentance from Rebecca. At least the marriage at the end was redemptive for a couple of the characters. if you are in a narcissistic abusive relationship you might want to pass on this book as you will be in a continual state of triggering and it will cause unnecessary anxiety. the reader was absolutely fantastic though 10;stars for her. she's the only reason I hung with the book :)

Superb reader! She is masterful with diverse voices.


(4 stars)

This is a very long book -- like a successful long-running TV series. I found myself wondering if it was originally a magazine serial that the author wanted to keep going as long as its ratings were high. I was a bit surprised when it all came together at the end in a coherent story arc.

oh for more stars!


(4.5 stars)

this reader is superb! the story, if listeners are unfamiliar, follows the meteoric rise and fall and rise and sort of fall of the enchanting schemer Rebecca Sharp as this penniless orphan, the daughter of a dancer at the opera, worms her way into several families of "the best people."