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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray

A masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature’s best-loved characters, Becky Sharp.Ruthless social climber and irrepressible anti-hero Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her position in Society, from impoverished orphan to woman of means. Clever, lively and resourceful, Becky is the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered yet good-natured girl from a wealthy family.As both women pursue love and life in London, against the background of the Napoleonic Wars, Thackeray paints a vivid portrait of decadent Regency England and satirises its corruption and flaws to delightful effect.

VANITY FAIR

William Makepeace Thackeray

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CONTENTS

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Chapter 1 Chiswick Mall

Chapter 2 In which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley prepare to open the campaign

Chapter 3 Rebecca is in presence of the enemy

Chapter 4 The Green Silk Purse

Chapter 5 Dobbin of Ours

Chapter 6 Vauxhall

Chapter 7 Crawley of Queen’s Crawley

Chapter 8 Private and Confidential

Chapter 9 Family Portraits

Chapter 10 Miss Sharp begins to make friends

Chapter 11 Arcadian simplicity

Chapter 12 Quite a sentimental chapter

Chapter 13 Sentimental and Otherwise

Chapter 14 Miss Crawley at home

Chapter 15 In which Rebecca’s husband appears for a short time

Chapter 16 The letter on the pincushion

Chapter 17 How Captain Dobbin bought a piano

Chapter 18 Who played on the piano Captain Dobbin bought

Chapter 19 Miss Crawley at Nurse

Chapter 20 In which Captain Dobbin acts as The Messenger of Hymen

Chapter 21 A quarrel about an Heiress

Chapter 22 A marriage and part of a honeymoon

Chapter 23 Captain Dobbin proceeds on his canvass

Chapter 24 In which Mr. Osborne takes down the Family Bible

Chapter 25 In which all the principal personages think fit to leave Brighton

Chapter 26 Between London and Chatham

Chapter 27 In which Amelia joins her regiment
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