Vanity Fair

a Novel without a Hero

by

William Makepeace Thackeray

With illustrations by the Author

eBooks@Adelaide
2006

Originally published as Vanity Fair, Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society in 20 serial parts from January 1847–July 1848.

First complete edition, as Vanity Fair, a Novel without a Hero, published in 1848.

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Table of Contents

Before the Curtain

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

Illustrations

  1. Rebecca's Farewell
  2. Mr. Joseph entangled
  3. Mr. Joseph in a state of excitement
  4. Rebecca makes acquaintance with A live Baronet
  5. Miss Sharp in her School-room
  6. Miss Crawley's affectionate relatives
  7. Mr. Osborne's welcome to Amelia
  8. Lieutenant Osborne and his ardent love letters
  9. The Note on the Pincushion
  10. An Elephant for Sale
  11. Mr. Sedley at the Coffee House
  12. Miss Swartz rehearsing for the Drawing Room
  13. Ensign Stubble practising the art of War
  14. A Family Party at Brighton
  15. Mrs. O'Dowd at the Flower Market
  16. Mrs. Osborne's carriage stopping the way
  17. Venus preparing the armour of Mars
  18. Mr. Jos shaves off his mustachios
  19. Mr. James pipe put out
  20. Major Sugarplums
  21. Mrs. Rawdon's departure from Paris
  22. Georgy makes acquaintance with a Waterloo Man
  23. The Ribbons discovered in the fact
  24. Sir Pitt's last Stage
  25. Glorvina tries her fascination on the Major
  26. The arrival at Queen's Crawley
  27. Betty in Lombard Street
  28. Georgie goes to the church genteelly
  29. The Triumph of Clytemnestra
  30. Colonel Crawley is wanted
  31. Sir Pitt's Study Chair
  32. Georgy a Gentleman
  33. A meeting
  34. Mr. Jos's Hookahbadar
  35. A fine Summer Evening
  36. Jos performs a Polonaise
  37. Becky's second appearance in the character of Clytemnestra
  38. Virtue is rewarded; A booth in Vanity Fair
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