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Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848

Original text in English.

Two friends enter the world together, one with a dowry, the other with nothing but her intelligence.

Novel · 68 parts · about 301 000 words · about 21 h 50 of reading

Contents

1. BEFORE THE CURTAIN3 min
2. IChiswick Mall12 min
3. IIIn Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign17 min
4. IIIRebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy13 min
5. IVThe Green Silk Purse22 min
6. VDobbin of Ours19 min
7. VIVauxhall22 min
8. VIICrawley of Queen's Crawley14 min
9. VIIIPrivate and Confidential17 min
10. IXFamily Portraits13 min
11. XMiss Sharp Begins to Make Friends11 min
12. XIArcadian Simplicity26 min
13. XIIQuite a Sentimental Chapter15 min
14. XIIISentimental and Otherwise21 min
15. XIVMiss Crawley at Home32 min
16. XVIn Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time15 min
17. XVIThe Letter on the Pincushion15 min
18. XVIIHow Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano15 min
19. XVIIIWho Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought22 min
20. XIXMiss Crawley at Nurse19 min
21. XXIn Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen18 min
22. XXIA Quarrel About an Heiress17 min
23. XXIIA Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon16 min
24. XXIIICaptain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass11 min
25. XXIVIn Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible25 min
26. XXVIn Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton35 min
27. XXVIBetween London and Chatham14 min
28. XXVIIIn Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment12 min
29. XXVIIIIn Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries17 min
30. XXIXBrussels24 min
31. XXX"The Girl I Left Behind Me"18 min
32. XXXIIn Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister21 min
33. XXXIIIn Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close30 min
34. XXXIIIIn Which Miss Crawley's Relations Are Very Anxious About Her19 min
35. XXXIVJames Crawley's Pipe Is Put Out31 min
36. XXXVWidow and Mother20 min
37. XXXVIHow to Live Well on Nothing a Year16 min
38. XXXVIIThe Subject Continued27 min
39. XXXVIIIA Family in a Very Small Way27 min
40. XXXIXA Cynical Chapter17 min
41. XLIn Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family16 min
42. XLIIn Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors22 min
43. XLIIWhich Treats of the Osborne Family14 min
44. XLIIIIn Which the Reader Has to Double the Cape17 min
45. XLIVA Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire19 min
46. XLVBetween Hampshire and London17 min
47. XLVIStruggles and Trials15 min
48. XLVIIGaunt House16 min
49. XLVIIIIn Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company21 min
50. XLIXIn Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert14 min
51. LContains a Vulgar Incident17 min
52. LIIn Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader33 min
53. LIIIn Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light19 min
54. LIIIA Rescue and a Catastrophe16 min
55. LIVSunday After the Battle16 min
56. LVIn Which the Same Subject is Pursued27 min
57. LVIGeorgy is Made a Gentleman22 min
58. LVIIEothen15 min
59. LVIIIOur Friend the Major21 min
60. LIXThe Old Piano20 min
61. LXReturns to the Genteel World11 min
62. LXIIn Which Two Lights are Put Out26 min
63. LXIIAm Rhein19 min
64. LXIIIIn Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance21 min
65. LXIVA Vagabond Chapter30 min
66. LXVFull of Business and Pleasure14 min
67. LXVIAmantium Irae28 min
68. LXVIIWhich Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths32 min

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