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William Makepeace Thackeray: The Short Stories Audiobook
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The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the novel, but it is an art in itself. To take a story and distill its essence is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. In this volume we examine some of the short stories of William Makepeace Thackeray.
The great author of Vanity Fair and The Luck Of Barry Lyndon was born in India in 1811. After returning to England at a young age, he was educated at private boarding schools and entered Trinity College at Cambridge. Though he found he established a career later in life, his success in his time was second only to Dickens. In this volume we hear some of his shorter works: "On Some Dinners At Paris," "On Some Old Customs Of The Dinner Table," and "Mrs. Perkins's Ball."
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About William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) was born and educated to be a gentleman but gambled away much of his fortune while at Cambridge. He trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. He was a regular contributor to periodicals and magazines and Vanity Fair was serialised in Punch in 1847–8.
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Richard Mitchley is an actor and narrator who has appeared in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet…, The Black Adder, and Doctor Who.
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.