Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society was originally published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, a satire set during the Napoleonic Wars. It was published as a novel in 1848, subtitled "A Novel without a Hero." [Illustrations by Thackeray, from the first edition: Becky Sharp as a "syren", a man-killing mermaid.]
Table of Contents
Chapter II: In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
Chapter III: Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy
Chapter IV: The Green Silk Purse
Chapter VII: Crawley of Queen's Crawley
Chapter VIII: Miss Rebecca Sharp to Miss Amelia Sedley, Russell Square, London.
Chapter X: Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
Chapter XI: Arcadian Simplicity
Chapter XII: Quite a Sentimental Chapter
Chapter XIII: Sentimental and Otherwise
Chapter XIV: Miss Crawley at Home
Chapter XV: In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time
Chapter XVI: The Letter on the Pincushion
Chapter XVII: How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
Chapter XVIII: Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought
Chapter XIX: Miss Crawley at Nurse
Chapter XX: In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen -
Chapter XXI: A Quarrel About an Heiress
Chapter XXII: A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon -
Chapter XXIII: Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass
Chapter XXIV: In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible
Chapter XXV: In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton
Chapter XXVI: Between London and Chatham
Chapter XXVII: In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment
Chapter XXVIII: In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries
Chapter XXX: "The Girl I Left Behind Me"
Chapter XXXI: In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister
Chapter XXXII: In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close
Chapter XXXIII: In Which Miss Crawley's Relations Are Very Anxious About Her
Chapter XXXIV: James Crawley's Pipe Is Put Out
Chapter XXXV: Widow and Mother
Chapter XXXVI: How to Live Well on Nothing a Year
Chapter XXXVII: The Subject Continued
Chapter XXXVIII: A Family in a Very Small Way
Chapter XXXIX: A Cynical Chapter
Chapter XL: In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family
Chapter XLI: In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors
Chapter XLII: Which Treats of the Osborne Family
Chapter XLIII: In Which the Reader Has to Double the Cape
Chapter XLIV: A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire
Chapter XLV: Between Hampshire and London
Chapter XLVI: Struggles and Trials
Chapter XLVIII: In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company
Chapter XLIX: In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert
Chapter L: Contains a Vulgar Incident
Chapter LI: In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader -
Chapter LII: In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light
Chapter LIV: Sunday After the Battle
Chapter LV: In Which the Same Subject is Pursued
Chapter LVI: Georgy is Made a Gentleman
Chapter LVIII: Our Friend the Major
Chapter LX: Returns to the Genteel World
Chapter LXI: In Which Two Lights are Put Out
Chapter LXIII: In Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance
Chapter LXIV: A Vagabond Chapter
Chapter LXV: Full of Business and Pleasure
Chapter LXVII: Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths
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