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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
by Loyal Books
If you've enjoyed watching the 1998 BBC television miniseries, you'd probably want to renew your acquaintance with William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847 novel, Vanity Fair. However, if you're unfamiliar with what has been dubbed one of the Best 100 Books in English Literature, you certainly have a treat ahead.Miss Pinkerton's Academy in Chiswick Mall in London is where young ladies with ambitions of making a good marriage are sent by their socially aspiring middleclass parents. Two young ladies, Amelia Sedley and Rebecca (Becky) Sharpe are on their way home after completing their term at Miss Pinkerton's. Amelia is from a well to do family, while Becky is a scheming orphan who has latched on to her amiable friend in the hopes of climbing the social ladder. In Amelia's comfortable Russell Square home, Becky goes to work immediately. Her target is Amelia's clumsy, boastful, wealthy civil servant brother, Joseph, who is home on furlough from India. She also meets the dashing Captain George
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01 – Chiswick Mall
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02 – In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
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03 – Rebecca is in Presence of the Enemy
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04 – The Green Silk Purse
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05 – Dobbin of Ours
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06 – Vauxhall
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07 – Crawley of Queen’s Crawley
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08 – Private and Confidential
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09 – Family Portraits
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10 – Miss Sharp Begins To Make Friends
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11 – Arcadian Simplicity
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12 – Quite a Sentimental Chapter
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13 – Sentimental and Otherwise
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14 – Miss Crawley at Home
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15 – In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time
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16 – The Letter on the Pincushion
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17 – How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
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18 – Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought
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19 – Miss Crawley at Nurse
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20 – In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen
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21 – A Quarrel About an Heiress
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22 – A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon
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23 – Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass
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24 – In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible
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25 – In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton
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26 – Between London and Chatham
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27 – In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment
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28 – In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries
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29 – Brussels
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30 – The Girl I Left Behind Me
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31 – In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister
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32 – In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close
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33 – In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious About Her
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34 – James Crawley’s Pipe is Put Out
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35 – Widow and Mother
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36 – How to Live Well on Nothing a Year
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37 – The Subject Continued
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38 – A Family in a Very Small Way
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39 – A Cynical Chapter
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40 – In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family
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41 – In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors
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42 – Which Treats of the Osborne Family
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43 – In Which the Reader has to Double the Cape
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44 – A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire
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45 – Between Hampshire and London
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46 – Struggles and Trials
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47 – Gaunt House
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48 – In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company
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49 – In Which we Enjoy Three Courses and a Desert
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50 – Contains a Vulgar Incident
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
If you've enjoyed watching the 1998 BBC television miniseries, you'd probably want to renew your acquaintance with William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847 novel, Vanity Fair. However, if you're unfamiliar with what has been dubbed one of the Best 100 Books in English Literature, you certainly have a treat ahead.Miss Pinkerton's Academy in Chiswick Mall in London is where young ladies with ambitions of making a good marriage are sent by their socially aspiring middleclass parents. Two young ladies, Amelia Sedley and Rebecca (Becky) Sharpe are on their way home after completing their term at Miss Pinkerton's. Amelia is from a well to do family, while Becky is a scheming orphan who has latched on to her amiable friend in the hopes of climbing the social ladder. In Amelia's comfortable Russell Square home, Becky goes to work immediately. Her target is Amelia's clumsy, boastful, wealthy civil servant brother, Joseph, who is home on furlough from India. She also meets the dashing Captain George
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