Vanity Fair
A Novel Without a Hero
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847-1848, 1877
Penguin Popular Classics, 1994
Characters:
- Amelia (Emmy) Sedley (Mrs Osborne)
- Rebecca (Becky) Sharp (Mrs Crawley)
- William (Capitain, Major) Dobbin
- George Osborne, Rawdon Crawley,
Jos Sedley, Pitt Crawley, Lady Jane, Lord Steyne,
Mrs Peggy O'Dowd, Glorvina
Chapter XVII. How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
p 155
The best of women (I have heard my grandmother say)
are hypocrites.
Chapter XXVIII. In which Amelia Invades the Low Countries
p 257
Ye should see the kenal boats between Dublin and Ballinasloe.
Chapter XLI.
In whice Becky Revisits the Halls of her Ancestors
p 399
All the men and maids of the house [...] were habited in sable.
Novels
Marc Girod