Vanity Fair is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It depicts a society revolving around the rise and fall in the society, marriage market and every place Vanity can enter.

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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 Recognized 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 Roundabout 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

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