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Vanity Fair

By William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair is a satirical novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial (the last containing parts 19 and 20) from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, which reflects both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Chiswick Mall
  2. 2: In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
  3. 3: Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy
  4. 4: The Green Silk Purse
  5. 5: Dobbin of Ours
  6. 6: Vauxhall
  7. 7: Crawley of Queen's Crawley
  8. 8: Private and Confidential
  9. 9: Family Portraits
  10. 10: Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
  11. 11: Arcadian Simplicity
  12. 12: Quite a Sentimental Chapter
  13. 13: Sentimental and Otherwise
  14. 14: Miss Crawley at Home
  15. 15: In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time
  16. 16: The Letter on the Pincushion
  17. 17: How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
  18. 18: Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought
  19. 19: Miss Crawley at Nurse
  20. 20: Chapter 20
  21. 21: A Quarrel About an Heiress
  22. 22: A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon
  23. 23: Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass
  24. 24: In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible
  25. 25: In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton
  26. 26: Between London and Chatham
  27. 27: In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment
  28. 28: In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries
  29. 29: Brussels
  30. 30: "The Girl I Left Behind Me"
  31. 31: In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister
  32. 32: In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close
  33. 33: In Which Miss Crawley's Relations Are Very Anxious About Her
  34. 34: James Crawley's Pipe Is Put Out
  35. 35: Widow and Mother
  36. 36: How to Live Well on Nothing a Year
  37. 37: The Subject Continued
  38. 38: A Family in a Very Small Way
  39. 39: A Cynical Chapter
  40. 40: In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family
  41. 41: In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors
  42. 42: Which Treats of the Osborne Family
  43. 43: In Which the Reader Has to Double the Cape
  44. 44: Chapter 44
  45. 45: Between Hampshire and London
  46. 46: Struggles and Trials
  47. 47: Gaunt House
  48. 48: In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company
  49. 49: In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert
  50. 50: Contains a Vulgar Incident
  51. 51: In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader
  52. 52: In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light
  53. 53: A Rescue and a Catastrophe
  54. 54: Sunday After the Battle
  55. 55: Chapter 55
  56. 56: Chapter 56
  57. 57: Eothen
  58. 58: Our Friend the Major
  59. 59: The Old Piano
  60. 60: Returns to the Genteel World
  61. 61: Chapter 61
  62. 62: Am Rhein
  63. 63: In Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance
  64. 64: A Vagabond Chapter
  65. 65: Full of Business and Pleasure
  66. 66: Amantium Irae
  67. 67: Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths