- Listenly
- Public Library
- All Authors
- William Makepeace Thackeray
author
William Makepeace Thackeray
1811–1863
A sharp, funny observer of society, he turned the manners and ambitions of Victorian England into lively fiction that still feels fresh. Best known for Vanity Fair, he wrote with wit, sympathy, and a clear eye for human weakness.
46 Audiobooks
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Barry Lyndon
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Rose and the Ring
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges
by William Makepeace Thackeray
A History of Pendennis, Volume 1
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Book of Snobs
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The History of Pendennis
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Roundabout Papers
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Virginians
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Les mémoires d'un valet de pied
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Comic Almanack, Volume 1
by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, Henry Mayhew, Horace Mayhew, Albert Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray
Burlesques
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Catherine: A Story
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Comic Almanack, Volume 2
by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, Henry Mayhew, Horace Mayhew, Albert Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray
The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
by William Makepeace Thackeray
La foire aux vanités, Tome I
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Ballads
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Fitz-Boodle Papers
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
by Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Thackeray
by William Makepeace Thackeray
La foire aux vanités, Tome II
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan
by William Makepeace Thackeray
A négy György : Kor-rajzi képek az angol udvari és városi életből
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Men's Wives
by William Makepeace Thackeray
"Our Street"
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches
by William Makepeace Thackeray
John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character
by William Makepeace Thackeray
George Cruikshank
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Second Funeral of Napoleon
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Fatal Boots
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Wolves and the Lamb
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The History of Pendennis, Volume 2
by William Makepeace Thackeray
A Little Dinner at Timmins's
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Bedford-Row Conspiracy
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Henry Esmondin historia: Hänen itsensä kertomana
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Mahogany Tree
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Some Roundabout Papers
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Doctor Birch and His Young Friends
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Samuel Titmarsh: Tarina isosta Hoggartyn timantista
by William Makepeace Thackeray
About the author
Born in Calcutta in 1811, William Makepeace Thackeray became one of the great English novelists of the Victorian age. He is most closely associated with Vanity Fair, the brilliant social satire that gave readers one of literature’s most memorable antiheroines, Becky Sharp. Alongside his novels, he also worked as a journalist, essayist, illustrator, and lecturer.
His writing often looks past grand heroics and focuses instead on vanity, ambition, snobbery, and everyday compromise. That mix of humor and honesty helped make his portraits of 19th-century life feel vivid and recognizably human.
Though often compared in his own time with Charles Dickens, Thackeray’s voice is distinctly his own: urbane, playful, and unsparing without losing warmth. He died in 1863, but his best work remains admired for its intelligence, entertainment, and wonderfully observant style.