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Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray 

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.

Read by Helen Taylor

Running Time:35:18:22 in 35 Audio CDs

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

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