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Vanity Fair
Chapitres (68)
- Before the Curtain 0:00
- I: Chiswick Mall 4:15
- II: In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign 22:26
- III: Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy 47:41
- IV: The Green Silk Purse 1:06:35
- V: Dobbin of Ours 1:42:04
- VI: Vauxhall 2:10:53
- VII: Crawley of Queen’s Crawley 2:44:41
- VIII: Private and Confidential 3:05:30
- IX: Family Portraits 3:30:10
- X: Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends 3:49:17
- XI: Arcadian Simplicity 4:05:03
- XII: Quite a Sentimental Chapter 4:45:04
- XIII: Sentimental and Otherwise 5:08:28
- XIV: Miss Crawley at Home 5:40:35
- XV: In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time 6:30:33
- XVI: The Letter on the Pincushion 6:53:57
- XVII: How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano 7:16:57
- XVIII: Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought 7:39:18
- XIX: Miss Crawley at Nurse 8:13:23
- XX: In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen 8:42:07
- XXI: A Quarrel About an Heiress 9:08:58
- XXII: A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon 9:33:22
- XXIII: Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass 9:56:46
- XXIV: In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible 10:14:02
- XXV: In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton 10:50:14
- XXVI: Between London and Chatham 11:43:17
- XXVII: In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment 12:04:08
- XXVIII: In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries 12:21:40
- XXIX: Brussels 12:47:00
- XXX: “The Girl I Left Behind Me” 13:22:17
- XXXI: In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister 13:48:26
- XXXII: In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close 14:20:17
- XXXIII: In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious About Her 15:04:12
- XXXIV: James Crawley’s Pipe Is Put Out 15:32:36
- XXXV: Widow and Mother 16:17:31
- XXXVI: How to Live Well on Nothing a Year 16:47:23
- XXXVII: The Subject Continued 17:10:22
- XXXVIII: A Family in a Very Small Way 17:50:20
- XXXIX: A Cynical Chapter 18:29:18
- XL: In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family 18:53:53
- XLI: In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors 19:16:24
- XLII: Which Treats of the Osborne Family 19:47:41
- XLIII: In Which the Reader Has to Double the Cape 20:07:34
- XLIV: A Roundabout Chapter Between London and Hampshire 20:33:12
- XLV: Between Hampshire and London 21:00:34
- XLVI: Struggles and Trials 21:24:56
- XLVII: Gaunt House 21:46:42
- XLVIII: In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company 22:10:06
- XLIX: In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert 22:40:52
- L: Contains a Vulgar Incident 23:01:09
- LI: In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader 23:26:25
- LII: In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light 24:17:23
- LIII: A Rescue and a Catastrophe 24:44:33
- LIV: Sunday After the Battle 25:08:17
- LV: In Which the Same Subject Is Pursued 25:31:12
- LVI: Georgy Is Made a Gentleman 26:12:59
- LVII: Eothen 26:44:54
- LVIII: Our Friend the Major 27:07:39
- LIX: The Old Piano 27:38:32
- LX: Returns to the Genteel World 28:07:43
- LXI: In Which Two Lights Are Put Out 28:23:48
- LXII: Am Rhein 29:01:44
- LXIII: In Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance 29:29:47
- LXIV: A Vagabond Chapter 30:00:49
- LXV: Full of Business and Pleasure 30:45:36
- LXVI: Amantium Irae 31:07:31
- LXVII: Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths 31:49:19
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Vanity Fair is perhaps Thackeray’s most famous novel. First serialized over the course of 19 volumes in Punch Magazine and first printed as a single volume in 1849, the novel cemented Thackeray’s literary fame and kept him busy with frequent revisions and even lecture circuits.
The story is framed as a puppet play, narrated by an unreliable narrator, that presents the story of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley and the people in their lives as they struggle through the Napoleonic Wars. The story itself, like many other Thackeray novels, is a satire of the lives of the Victorian English of a certain class. Thackeray packed the novel with allusions, many of which were difficult even for his contemporary readers; part of the heavy revisions he later made were making the allusions more accessible to his evolving audience.
As part of his satirical bent, Thackeray made a point to make each character flawed, so that there are no “heroes” in the book—hence the subtitle “A Novel Without a Hero.” Thackeray’s goal was not only to entertain, but to instruct; to that end, he wanted the reader to look within themselves after finishing the unhappy conclusion, in which there’s no hint as to how society might be able to improve on the evils shadowed in the events of the novel.
Vanity Fair received glowing praise by its critical contemporaries, and remains a popular book well into modern times, having been adapted repeatedly for film, radio, and television.