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Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school with very different resources and expectations. Their paths through marriage, money and social ambition expose a world in which charm and respectability are constantly judged, while the grounds of those judgments shift with fortune.

67 sections303,267 wordsAbout 22 h 58 min
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About Vanity Fair

An intrusive narrator presents the social world as a performance while implicating its audience in the pleasure of watching. Affection, calculation and self-deception rarely stay neatly separate. Repeated attention to income and introductions makes apparently private choices part of a broader economy of reputation, without giving every character equal room to maneuver.

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Compare Becky's and Amelia's social judgments while noticing how the narrator encourages and then unsettles your own.

This reading edition contains 303,267 words in 67 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.

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Chiswick Mall

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Contents

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  1. CHAPTER I13 min
  2. CHAPTER II18 min
  3. CHAPTER III14 min
  4. CHAPTER IV24 min
  5. CHAPTER V20 min
  6. CHAPTER VI24 min
  7. CHAPTER VII15 min
  8. CHAPTER VIII18 min
  9. CHAPTER IX14 min
  10. CHAPTER X12 min
  11. CHAPTER XI29 min
  12. CHAPTER XII16 min
  13. CHAPTER XIII23 min
  14. CHAPTER XIV34 min
  15. CHAPTER XV16 min
  16. CHAPTER XVI17 min
  17. CHAPTER XVII16 min
  18. CHAPTER XVIII24 min
  19. CHAPTER XIX20 min
  20. CHAPTER XX20 min
  21. CHAPTER XXI18 min
  22. CHAPTER XXII17 min
  23. CHAPTER XXIII12 min
  24. CHAPTER XXIV26 min
  25. CHAPTER XXV37 min
  26. CHAPTER XXVI15 min
  27. CHAPTER XXVII13 min
  28. CHAPTER XXVIII18 min
  29. CHAPTER XXIX26 min
  30. CHAPTER XXX19 min
  31. CHAPTER XXXI23 min
  32. CHAPTER XXXII32 min
  33. CHAPTER XXXIII20 min
  34. CHAPTER XXXIV33 min
  35. CHAPTER XXXV22 min
  36. CHAPTER XXXVI17 min
  37. CHAPTER XXXVII29 min
  38. CHAPTER XXXVIII29 min
  39. CHAPTER XXXIX18 min
  40. CHAPTER XL17 min
  41. CHAPTER XLI23 min
  42. CHAPTER XLII15 min
  43. CHAPTER XLIII19 min
  44. CHAPTER XLIV20 min
  45. CHAPTER XLV18 min
  46. CHAPTER XLVI17 min
  47. CHAPTER XLVII17 min
  48. CHAPTER XLVIII22 min
  49. CHAPTER XLIX15 min
  50. CHAPTER L18 min
  51. CHAPTER LI35 min
  52. CHAPTER LII20 min
  53. CHAPTER LIII18 min
  54. CHAPTER LIV18 min
  55. CHAPTER LV30 min
  56. CHAPTER LVI23 min
  57. CHAPTER LVII17 min
  58. CHAPTER LVIII23 min
  59. CHAPTER LIX22 min
  60. CHAPTER LX12 min
  61. CHAPTER LXI27 min
  62. CHAPTER LXII21 min
  63. CHAPTER LXIII23 min
  64. CHAPTER LXIV32 min
  65. CHAPTER LXV16 min
  66. CHAPTER LXVI30 min
  67. CHAPTER LXVII34 min

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