Vanity Fair

Summary

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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

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Chapters (67)

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

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