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Vanity Fair (version 2)

by William Makepeace THACKERAY (1811 - 1863)

Quite a Sentimental Chapter

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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Listen next episodes of Vanity Fair (version 2):
A Cynical Chapter , A Family in a Very Small Way , A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon , A Quarrel About an Heiress , A Rescue And A Catastrophe , A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire , A Vagabond Chapter , Am Rhein , Amantium Irae , Between Hampshire and London , Between London and Chatham , Brussels , Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass , Contains a Vulgar Incident , Eothen , Full of Business and Pleasure , Gaunt House , Georgy is Made a Gentleman , How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano , How to Live Well on Nothing a Year , In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader , In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton , In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries , In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment , In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family , In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors , In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen , In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister , In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close , In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself In A Most Amiable Light , In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious About Her , In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible , In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time , In Which the Reader has to Double the Cape , In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company , In Which the Same Subject is Pursued , In Which Two Lights Are Put Out , In Which we Enjoy Three Courses and a Desert , In Which We Meet An Old Acquaintance , James Crawley’s Pipe is Put Out , Miss Crawley At Home , Miss Crawley At Nurse , Our Friend the Major , Returns to the Genteel World , Sentimental and Otherwise , Struggles and Trials , Sunday After the Battle , The Girl I Left Behind Me , The Letter on the Pincushion , The Old Piano , The Subject Continued , Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths , Which Treats of the Osborne Family , Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought , Widow and Mother