One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mobile Becky Sharp and her gentle, good-hearted friend Amelia Sedley as they leave their boarding school and embark upon their lives in Vanity Fair, the social climbing, wealth-obsessed world of Regency England in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. - Summary by Helen Taylor
Chapters
1 Chiswick Mall 21 min 2 In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign 27 min 3 Rebecca is in Presence of the Enemy 20 min 4 The Green Silk Purse 37 min 5 Dobbin of Ours 32 min 6 Vauxhall 37 min 7 Crawley of Queen's Crawley 22 min 8 Private and Confidential 27 min 9 Family Portraits 21 min 10 Miss Sharp Begins To Make Friends 17 min 11 Arcadian Simplicity 44 min 12 Quite a Sentimental Chapter 26 min 13 Sentimental and Otherwise 36 min 14 Miss Crawley At Home 54 min 15 In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time 26 min 16 The Letter on the Pincushion 26 min 17 How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano 24 min 18 Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought 38 min 19 Miss Crawley At Nurse 32 min 20 In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen 28 min 21 A Quarrel About an Heiress 26 min 22 A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon 25 min 23 Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass 18 min 24 In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible 39 min 25 In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton 57 min 26 Between London and Chatham 23 min 27 In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment 19 min 28 In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries 27 min 29 Brussels 39 min 30 The Girl I Left Behind Me 28 min 31 In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister 36 min 32 In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close 49 min 33 In Which Miss Crawley's Relations Are Very Anxious About Her 32 min 34 James Crawley's Pipe is Put Out 50 min 35 Widow and Mother 33 min 36 How to Live Well on Nothing a Year 26 min 37 The Subject Continued 44 min 38 A Family in a Very Small Way 44 min 39 A Cynical Chapter 28 min 40 In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family 25 min 41 In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors 34 min 42 Which Treats of the Osborne Family 22 min 43 In Which the Reader has to Double the Cape 28 min 44 A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire 30 min 45 Between Hampshire and London 27 min 46 Struggles and Trials 24 min 47 Gaunt House 25 min 48 In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company 33 min 49 In Which we Enjoy Three Courses and a Desert 21 min 50 Contains a Vulgar Incident 27 min 51 In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader 55 min 52 In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself In A Most Amiable Light 29 min 53 A Rescue And A Catastrophe 26 min 54 Sunday After the Battle 24 min 55 In Which the Same Subject is Pursued 44 min 56 Georgy is Made a Gentleman 35 min 57 Eothen 24 min 58 Our Friend the Major 32 min 59 The Old Piano 31 min 60 Returns to the Genteel World 17 min 61 In Which Two Lights Are Put Out 40 min 62 Am Rhein 29 min 63 In Which We Meet An Old Acquaintance 33 min 64 A Vagabond Chapter 47 min 65 Full of Business and Pleasure 23 min 66 Amantium Irae 44 min 67 Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths 51 min
