一幅十九世纪英国贵族资产阶级上层骄奢淫逸、勾心斗角的生活图景。
此为萨克雷的一部小说,首次出版于1847至1848年之间,讽刺了十九世纪的英国。故事的主线是两个完全不同的女人的生活,以及他们的朋友和家庭。此小说现在被奉为经典。2003年,此部小说被英国广播公司列为"百部最受喜爱的小说"。聪明漂亮的利蓓加出身于贫穷的画师家庭,从小父母双亡,在平克顿女子学校受尽歧视。离校后她凭着美貌和机智,不择手段地猎取金钱,通过投机和冒险,力图挤进上流社会。几经坎坷,几度荣辱,在英国社会的名利场中,她最终还是默默无闻地度日。围绕利蓓加,小说成功地塑造了爱米丽亚、乔治、罗登、乔瑟夫、克劳莱小姐、都宾等人物的形象。原作副题是《没有主角的小说》,这里的人物不是简单化的或好或坏,他们都有着复杂而深刻的内心活动。利蓓加已成为十九世纪初期英国社会的一个女冒险家的典型。
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. It follows the lives of two very different women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, amid their friends and family. The novel is now considered a classic, and has inspired several film adaptations. In 2003, Vanity Fair was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel".
- BEFORE THE CURTAIN
- Chapter I Chiswick Mall
- CHAPTER II In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
- CHAPTER III Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy
- CHAPTER IV The Green Silk
- CHAPTER V Dobbin of Ours
- CHAPTER VI Vauxhall
- CHAPTER VII Crawley of Queen's Crawley
- CHAPTER VIII Miss Rebecca Sharp to Miss Amelia Sedley, Russell Square, London.
- CHAPTER IX Family Portraits
- CHAPTER X Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
- CHAPTER XI Arcadian Simplicity
- CHAPTER XII Quite a Sentimental Chapter
- CHAPTER XIII Sentimental and Otherwise
- CHAPTER XIV Miss Crawley at Home
- CHAPTER XV In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time
- CHAPTER XVI The Letter on the Pincushion
- CHAPTER XVII How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
- CHAPTER XVIII Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought
- CHAPTER XIX Miss Crawley at Nurse
- CHAPTER XX In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen
- CHAPTER XXI A Quarrel About an Heiress
- CHAPTER XXII A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon
- CHAPTER XXIII Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass
- CHAPTER XXIV In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible
- CHAPTER XXV In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton
- CHAPTER XXVI Between London and Chatham
- CHAPTER XXVII In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment
- CHAPTER XXVIII In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries
- CHAPTER XXIX Brussels
- CHAPTER XXX "The Girl I Left Behind Me"
- CHAPTER XXXI In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister
- CHAPTER XXXII In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close
- CHAPTER XXXIII In Which Miss Crawley's Relations Are Very Anxious About Her
- CHAPTER XXXIV James Crawley's Pipe Is Put Out
- CHAPTER XXXV Widow and Mother
- CHAPTER XXXVI How to Live Well on Nothing a Year
- CHAPTER XXXVII The Subject Continued
- CHAPTER XXXVIII A Family in a Very Small Way
- CHAPTER XXXIX A Cynical Chapter
- CHAPTER XL In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family
- CHAPTER XLI In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors
- CHAPTER XLII Which Treats of the Osborne Family
- CHAPIER XLIII In Which the Reader Has to Double the Cape
- CHAPTER XLIV A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire
- CHAPTER XLV Between Hampshire and London
- CHAPTER XLVI Struggles and Trials
- CHAPTER XLVII Gaunt House
- CHAPTER XLVIII In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company
- CHAPTER XLIX In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert
- CHAPTER L Contains a Vulgar Incident
- CHAPTER LI In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader
- CHAPTER LII In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light
- CHAPTER LIII A Rexcue and A Catastrophe
- CHAPTER LIV Sunday After the Battle
- CHAPIER LV In Which the Same Subject is Pursued
- CHAPTER LVI Georgy is Made a Gentleman
- CHAPTER LVII Eothen
- CHAPTER LVIII Our Friend the Major
- CHAPTER LIX The Old Piano
- CHAPTER LX Returns to the Genteel World
- CHAPTER LXI In Which Two Lights are Put Out
- CHAPTER LXII Am Rhein
- CHAPTER LXIII In Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance
- CHAPTER LXIV A Vagabond Chapter
- CHAPTER LXV Full of Business and Pleasure
- CHAPTER LXVI Amantium Irae
- CHAPTER LXVII Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths
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