- Vanity Fair (version 2)
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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.
- Chapters
- Chiswick Mall
- In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
- Rebecca is in Presence of the Enemy
- The Green Silk Purse
- Dobbin of Ours
- Vauxhall
- Crawley of Queen's Crawley
- Private and Confidential
- Family Portraits
- Miss Sharp Begins To Make Friends
- Arcadian Simplicity
- Quite a Sentimental Chapter
- Sentimental and Otherwise
- Miss Crawley At Home
- In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time
- The Letter on the Pincushion
- How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
- Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought
- Miss Crawley At Nurse
- In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen
- A Quarrel About an Heiress
- A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon
- Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass
- In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible
- In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton
- Between London and Chatham
- In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment
- In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries
- Brussels
- The Girl I Left Behind Me
- In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister
- In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close
- In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious About Her
- James Crawley’s Pipe is Put Out
- Widow and Mother
- How to Live Well on Nothing a Year
- The Subject Continued
- A Family in a Very Small Way
- A Cynical Chapter
- In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family
- In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors
- Which Treats of the Osborne Family
- In Which the Reader has to Double the Cape
- A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire
- Between Hampshire and London
- Struggles and Trials
- Gaunt House
- In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company
- In Which we Enjoy Three Courses and a Desert
- Contains a Vulgar Incident
- In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader
- In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself In A Most Amiable Light
- A Rescue And A Catastrophe
- Sunday After the Battle
- In Which the Same Subject is Pursued
- Georgy is Made a Gentleman
- Eothen
- Our Friend the Major
- The Old Piano
- Returns to the Genteel World
- In Which Two Lights Are Put Out
- Am Rhein
- In Which We Meet An Old Acquaintance
- A Vagabond Chapter
- Full of Business and Pleasure
- Amantium Irae
- Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths