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Vanity Fair (version 2)

Vanity Fair (version 2)

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Classic novels

About this book

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

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  1. 1Chiswick Mall20:44 · read by Helen Taylor
  2. 2In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign27:12 · read by Helen Taylor
  3. 3Rebecca is in Presence of the Enemy20:28 · read by Helen Taylor
  4. 4The Green Silk Purse37:12 · read by Helen Taylor
  5. 5Dobbin of Ours32:00 · read by Helen Taylor
  6. 6Vauxhall36:32 · read by Helen Taylor
  7. 7Crawley of Queen's Crawley21:39 · read by Helen Taylor
  8. 8Private and Confidential27:13 · read by Helen Taylor
  9. 9Family Portraits21:28 · read by Helen Taylor
  10. 10Miss Sharp Begins To Make Friends17:25 · read by Helen Taylor
  11. 11Arcadian Simplicity44:03 · read by Helen Taylor
  12. 12Quite a Sentimental Chapter25:32 · read by Helen Taylor
  13. 13Sentimental and Otherwise35:45 · read by Helen Taylor
  14. 14Miss Crawley At Home53:49 · read by Helen Taylor
  15. 15In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time26:27 · read by Helen Taylor
  16. 16The Letter on the Pincushion25:41 · read by Helen Taylor
  17. 17How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano24:30 · read by Helen Taylor
  18. 18Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought37:30 · read by Helen Taylor
  19. 19Miss Crawley At Nurse31:46 · read by Helen Taylor
  20. 20In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen27:52 · read by Helen Taylor
  21. 21A Quarrel About an Heiress25:45 · read by Helen Taylor
  22. 22A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon25:15 · read by Helen Taylor
  23. 23Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass17:59 · read by Helen Taylor
  24. 24In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible38:37 · read by Helen Taylor
  25. 25In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton56:48 · read by Helen Taylor
  26. 26Between London and Chatham23:19 · read by Helen Taylor
  27. 27In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment19:05 · read by Helen Taylor
  28. 28In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries27:24 · read by Helen Taylor
  29. 29Brussels38:35 · read by Helen Taylor
  30. 30The Girl I Left Behind Me27:52 · read by Helen Taylor
  31. 31In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister35:42 · read by Helen Taylor
  32. 32In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close49:16 · read by Helen Taylor
  33. 33In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious About Her31:42 · read by Helen Taylor
  34. 34James Crawley’s Pipe is Put Out50:14 · read by Helen Taylor
  35. 35Widow and Mother33:22 · read by Helen Taylor
  36. 36How to Live Well on Nothing a Year25:36 · read by Helen Taylor
  37. 37The Subject Continued43:38 · read by Helen Taylor
  38. 38A Family in a Very Small Way43:46 · read by Helen Taylor
  39. 39A Cynical Chapter28:14 · read by Helen Taylor
  40. 40In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family25:20 · read by Helen Taylor
  41. 41In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors33:59 · read by Helen Taylor
  42. 42Which Treats of the Osborne Family22:07 · read by Helen Taylor
  43. 43In Which the Reader has to Double the Cape27:35 · read by Helen Taylor
  44. 44A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire30:25 · read by Helen Taylor
  45. 45Between Hampshire and London26:48 · read by Helen Taylor
  46. 46Struggles and Trials24:01 · read by Helen Taylor
  47. 47Gaunt House25:06 · read by Helen Taylor
  48. 48In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company33:14 · read by Helen Taylor
  49. 49In Which we Enjoy Three Courses and a Desert21:25 · read by Helen Taylor
  50. 50Contains a Vulgar Incident27:19 · read by Helen Taylor
  51. 51In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader54:40 · read by Helen Taylor
  52. 52In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself In A Most Amiable Light29:14 · read by Helen Taylor
  53. 53A Rescue And A Catastrophe26:01 · read by Helen Taylor
  54. 54Sunday After the Battle23:56 · read by Helen Taylor
  55. 55In Which the Same Subject is Pursued43:30 · read by Helen Taylor
  56. 56Georgy is Made a Gentleman34:54 · read by Helen Taylor
  57. 57Eothen24:22 · read by Helen Taylor
  58. 58Our Friend the Major32:09 · read by Helen Taylor
  59. 59The Old Piano31:19 · read by Helen Taylor
  60. 60Returns to the Genteel World16:58 · read by Helen Taylor
  61. 61In Which Two Lights Are Put Out40:15 · read by Helen Taylor
  62. 62Am Rhein28:56 · read by Helen Taylor
  63. 63In Which We Meet An Old Acquaintance32:35 · read by Helen Taylor
  64. 64A Vagabond Chapter47:08 · read by Helen Taylor
  65. 65Full of Business and Pleasure22:34 · read by Helen Taylor
  66. 66Amantium Irae44:09 · read by Helen Taylor
  67. 67Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths51:26 · read by Helen Taylor

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