Vanity Fair (version 2)

William Makepeace Thackeray

Language: English

Genres: General Fiction

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

Now Playing

1/67Chiswick Mall

00:00

00:00

67 Chapter(s)

Scroll to view

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

Comments

Log in to comment

Be the first to comment

There aren't any comments on this content yet. Start the conversation!

Advertisement