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Vanity Fair

Thackeray, William Makepeace

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

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