Vanity Fair
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Plates
- How This Book Came to Be
- In Praise of Thackeray’s Pictures
- The Author: 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 Recognised 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
Subtitled "a novel without a hero," Vanity Fair offers an acidly satirical romp across all levels of English society during the Napoleonic wars. William Thackeray focuses on how the war affects people other than soldiers, the typical heroes. All of his characters are deeply flawed, from social climber Becky Sharp and sweet Amelia Sedley to caddish George Osborne and loyal William Dobbin. Becky, liar and hypocrite, takes center stage as one of literature's great female protagonists. Penniless, armed with only her beauty, charm, and cunning, she claws her way forward by practicing the corrupt principles of her world. Becky seduces her enemies and betrays friends with a charismatic energy that has captivated generations of readers. Regarded as Thackeray's best novel and masterpiece, Vanity Fair was published in serial form in 1847–48 in Punch and established the author's literary reputation as well as his social status and financial security. Critic A. E. Dyson acclaimed it as "one of the world's most devious novels, devious in its characterization, its irony, its explicit moralizing, its exuberance, its tone. Few novels demand more continuing alertness from the reader, or offer more intellectual and moral stimulation in return."