Vanity Fair

Quick-witted but poor Becky Sharp, and simple-minded but rich Amelia Sedley leave the shelter of school and find themselves embroiled in mismatched marriages, secret loves, and relentless social climbing in 19th-century England. Becky in particular will stop at nothing to secure her future.

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• Before the Curtain
• 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
• 35: 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 Dessert
• 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
• 53: 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