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Vanity Fair (version 2)

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)

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

Genre(s): General Fiction

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Chiswick Mall	Helen Taylor	00:20:44
Play 02	In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign	Helen Taylor	00:27:12
Play 03	Rebecca is in Presence of the Enemy	Helen Taylor	00:20:28
Play 04	The Green Silk Purse	Helen Taylor	00:37:12
Play 05	Dobbin of Ours	Helen Taylor	00:32:00
Play 06	Vauxhall	Helen Taylor	00:36:32
Play 07	Crawley of Queen's Crawley	Helen Taylor	00:21:39
Play 08	Private and Confidential	Helen Taylor	00:27:13
Play 09	Family Portraits	Helen Taylor	00:21:28
Play 10	Miss Sharp Begins To Make Friends	Helen Taylor	00:17:25
Play 11	Arcadian Simplicity	Helen Taylor	00:44:03
Play 12	Quite a Sentimental Chapter	Helen Taylor	00:25:32
Play 13	Sentimental and Otherwise	Helen Taylor	00:35:45
Play 14	Miss Crawley At Home	Helen Taylor	00:53:49
Play 15	In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time	Helen Taylor	00:26:27
Play 16	The Letter on the Pincushion	Helen Taylor	00:25:41
Play 17	How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano	Helen Taylor	00:24:30
Play 18	Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought	Helen Taylor	00:37:30
Play 19	Miss Crawley At Nurse	Helen Taylor	00:31:46
Play 20	In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen	Helen Taylor	00:27:52
Play 21	A Quarrel About an Heiress	Helen Taylor	00:25:45
Play 22	A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon	Helen Taylor	00:25:15
Play 23	Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass	Helen Taylor	00:17:59
Play 24	In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible	Helen Taylor	00:38:37
Play 25	In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton	Helen Taylor	00:56:48
Play 26	Between London and Chatham	Helen Taylor	00:23:19
Play 27	In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment	Helen Taylor	00:19:05
Play 28	In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries	Helen Taylor	00:27:24
Play 29	Brussels	Helen Taylor	00:38:35
Play 30	The Girl I Left Behind Me	Helen Taylor	00:27:52
Play 31	In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister	Helen Taylor	00:35:42
Play 32	In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close	Helen Taylor	00:49:16
Play 33	In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious About Her	Helen Taylor	00:31:42
Play 34	James Crawley’s Pipe is Put Out	Helen Taylor	00:50:14
Play 35	Widow and Mother	Helen Taylor	00:33:22
Play 36	How to Live Well on Nothing a Year	Helen Taylor	00:25:36
Play 37	The Subject Continued	Helen Taylor	00:43:38
Play 38	A Family in a Very Small Way	Helen Taylor	00:43:46
Play 39	A Cynical Chapter	Helen Taylor	00:28:14
Play 40	In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family	Helen Taylor	00:25:20
Play 41	In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors	Helen Taylor	00:33:59
Play 42	Which Treats of the Osborne Family	Helen Taylor	00:22:07
Play 43	In Which the Reader has to Double the Cape	Helen Taylor	00:27:35
Play 44	A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire	Helen Taylor	00:30:25
Play 45	Between Hampshire and London	Helen Taylor	00:26:48
Play 46	Struggles and Trials	Helen Taylor	00:24:01
Play 47	Gaunt House	Helen Taylor	00:25:06
Play 48	In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company	Helen Taylor	00:33:14
Play 49	In Which we Enjoy Three Courses and a Desert	Helen Taylor	00:21:25
Play 50	Contains a Vulgar Incident	Helen Taylor	00:27:19
Play 51	In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader	Helen Taylor	00:54:40
Play 52	In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself In A Most Amiable Light	Helen Taylor	00:29:14
Play 53	A Rescue And A Catastrophe	Helen Taylor	00:26:01
Play 54	Sunday After the Battle	Helen Taylor	00:23:56
Play 55	In Which the Same Subject is Pursued	Helen Taylor	00:43:30
Play 56	Georgy is Made a Gentleman	Helen Taylor	00:34:54
Play 57	Eothen	Helen Taylor	00:24:22
Play 58	Our Friend the Major	Helen Taylor	00:32:09
Play 59	The Old Piano	Helen Taylor	00:31:19
Play 60	Returns to the Genteel World	Helen Taylor	00:16:58
Play 61	In Which Two Lights Are Put Out	Helen Taylor	00:40:15
Play 62	Am Rhein	Helen Taylor	00:28:56
Play 63	In Which We Meet An Old Acquaintance	Helen Taylor	00:32:35
Play 64	A Vagabond Chapter	Helen Taylor	00:47:08
Play 65	Full of Business and Pleasure	Helen Taylor	00:22:34
Play 66	Amantium Irae	Helen Taylor	00:44:09
Play 67	Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths	Helen Taylor	00:51:26

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