Vanity Fair

Name: Vanity Fair
Author: Thackeray

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As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place.
Yes, this is VANITY FAIR; not a moral place certainly; nor a merry one, though very noisy.

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Chapter I. Chiswick MallSample
Chapter II. In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
Chapter III. Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy
Chapter IV. The Green Silk Purse
Chapter V. Dobbin of Ours
Chapter VI. Vauxhall
Chapter VII. Crawley of Queen's Crawley
Chapter VIII. Private and Confidential
Chapter IX. Family Portraits
Chapter X. Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
Chapter XI. Arcadian Simplicity
Chapter XII. Quite a Sentimental Chapter
Chapter XIII. Sentimental and Otherwise
Chapter XIV. Miss Crawley at Home
Chapter XV. In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time
Chapter XVI. The Letter on the Pincushion
Chapter XVII. How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
Chapter XVIII. Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought
Chapter XIX. Miss Crawley at Nurse
Chapter XX. In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen
Chapter XXI. A Quarrel About an Heiress
Chapter XXII. A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon
Chapter XXIII. Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass
Chapter XXIV. In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible
Chapter XXV. In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton
Chapter XXVI. Between London and Chatham
Chapter XXVII. In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment
Chapter XXVIII. In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries
Chapter XXIX. Brussels
Chapter XXX. "The Girl I Left Behind Me"
Chapter XXXI. In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister
Chapter XXXII. In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close
Chapter XXXIII. In Which Miss Crawley's Relations Are Very Anxious About Her
Chapter XXXIV. James Crawley's Pipe Is Put Out
Chapter XXXV. Widow and Mother
Chapter XXXVI. How to Live Well on Nothing a Year
Chapter XXXVII. The Subject Continued
Chapter XXXVIII. A Family in a Very Small Way
Chapter XXXIX. A Cynical Chapter
Chapter XL. In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family
Chapter XLI. In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors
Chapter XLII. Which Treats of the Osborne Family
Chapter XLIII. In Which the Reader Has to Double the Cape
Chapter XLIV. A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire
Chapter XLV. Between Hampshire and London
Chapter XLVI. Struggles and Trials
Chapter XLVII. Gaunt House
Chapter XLVIII. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company
Chapter XLIX. In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert
Chapter L. Contains a Vulgar Incident
Chapter LI. In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader
Chapter LII. In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light
Chapter LIII. A Rescue and a Catastrophe
Chapter LIV. Sunday After the Battle
Chapter LV. In Which the Same Subject is Pursued
Chapter LVI. Georgy is Made a Gentleman
Chapter LVII. Eothen
Chapter LVIII. Our Friend the Major
Chapter LIX. The Old Piano
Chapter LX. Returns to the Genteel World
Chapter LXI. In Which Two Lights are Put Out
Chapter LXII. Am Rhein
Chapter LXIII. In Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance
Chapter LXIV. A Vagabond Chapter
Chapter LXV. Full of Business and Pleasure
Chapter LXVI. Amantium Irae
Chapter LXVII. Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths