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In Victorian era England, longtime friends Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley experience love and loss alongside the many colorful members of their unique social circle. Despite the ups and downs, they attempt to maintain their dignity and connection.
Becky Sharp is a bold spitfire who's driven by ambition and eager to solidify her station in life. Her childhood friend, Amelia Sedley, is a modest and passive woman, who is mostly viewed as warm and endearing. Their glaring personalities are on full display as they encounter various male suitors including Rawdon Crawley and George Osborne. Becky's flirtatious and manipulative manner makes her a topic of conversation, while Amelia's loyalty proves to be a cross too heavy to bear.
Vanity Fair is one of William Makepeace Thackeray's most famous novels. It has been adapted multiple times for television and film, including a 2004 feature starring Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon as the feisty Becky. She is often considered Thackeray's most memorable character.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Vanity Fair is both modern and readable.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Before the Curtain
- I. Chiswick Mall
- II. In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
- III. Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy
- IV. The Green Silk Purse
- V. Dobbin of Ours
- VI. Vauxhall
- VII. Crawley of Queen’s Crawley
- VIII. Private and Confidential
- IX. Family Portraits
- X. Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
- XI. Arcadian Simplicity
- XII. Quite a Sentimental Chapter
- XIII. Sentimental and Otherwise
- XIV. Miss Crawley at Home
- XV. In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time
- XVI. The Letter on the Pincushion
- XVII. How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
- XVIII. Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought
- XIX. Miss Crawley at Nurse
- XX. In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen
- XXI. A Quarrel About an Heiress
- XXII. A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon
- XXIII. Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass
- XXIV. In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible
- XXV. In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton
- XXVI. Between London and Chatham
- XXVII. In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment
- XXVIII. In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries
- XXIX. Brussels
- XXX. “The Girl I Left Behind Me”
- XXXI. In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister
- XXXII. In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close
- XXXIII. In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious About Her
- XXXIV. James Crawley’s Pipe Is Put Out
- XXXV. Widow and Mother
- XXXVI. How to Live Well on Nothing a Year
- XXXVII. The Subject Continued
- XXXVIII. A Family in a Very Small Way
- XXXIX. A Cynical Chapter
- XL. In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family
- XLI. In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors
- XLII. Which Treats of the Osborne Family
- XLIII. In Which the Reader Has to Double the Cape
- XLIV. A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire
- XLV. Between Hampshire and London
- XLVI. Struggles and Trials
- XLVII. Gaunt House
- XLVIII. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company
- XLIX. In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert
- L. Contains a Vulgar Incident
- LI. In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader
- LII. In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light
- LIII. A Rescue and a Catastrophe
- LIV. Sunday After the Battle
- LV. In Which the Same Subject is Pursued
- LVI. Georgy is Made a Gentleman
- LVII. Eothen
- LVIII. Our Friend the Major
- LIX. The Old Piano
- LX. Returns to the Genteel World
- LXI. In Which Two Lights are Put Out
- LXII. Am Rhein
- LXIII. In Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance
- LXIV. A Vagabond Chapter
- LXV. Full of Business and Pleasure
- LXVI. Amantium Irae
- LXVII. Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- A Note About the Author
- A Note from the Publisher