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Enter the bustling marketplace of life in a novel without a hero, where the ambitious Becky Sharp battles her way through the strata of English society. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, this satirical panorama exposes the greed, hypocrisy, and vanity that drive human behavior. The narrative puppeteer guides the reader through a world where virtue is rarely rewarded and wickedness is often delightful. It remains one of the sharpest and most entertaining critiques of social maneuvering ever written.
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length33 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1I. Chiswick Mall
2II. In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
3III. Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy
4IV. The Green Silk Purse
5V. Dobbin of Ours
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6VI. Vauxhall
7VII. Crawley of Queen’s Crawley
8VIII. Private and Confidential
9IX. Family Portraits
10X. Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
11XI. Arcadian Simplicity
12XII. Quite a Sentimental Chapter
13XIII. Sentimental and Otherwise
14XIV. Miss Crawley at Home
15XV. In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time
16XVI. The Letter on the Pincushion
17XVII. How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
18XVIII. Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought
19XIX. Miss Crawley at Nurse
20XX. In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen
21XXI. A Quarrel About an Heiress
22XXII. A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon
23XXIII. Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass
24XXIV. In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible
25XXV. In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton
26XXVI. Between London and Chatham
27XXVII. In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment
28XXVIII. In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries
29XXIX. Brussels
30XXX. “The Girl I Left Behind Me”
31XXXI. In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister
32XXXII. In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close
33XXXIII. In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious About Her
34XXXIV. James Crawley’s Pipe Is Put Out
35XXXV. Widow and Mother
36XXXVI. How to Live Well on Nothing a Year
37XXXVII. The Subject Continued
38XXXVIII. A Family in a Very Small Way
39XXXIX. A Cynical Chapter
40XL. In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family
41XLI. In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors
42XLII. Which Treats of the Osborne Family
43XLIII. In Which the Reader Has to Double the Cape
44XLIV. A Roundabout Chapter Between London and Hampshire
45XLV. Between Hampshire and London
46XLVI. Struggles and Trials
47XLVII. Gaunt House
48XLVIII. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company
49XLIX. In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert
50L. Contains a Vulgar Incident