How you explore Vanity Fair on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 31 characters, 14 places, 13 objects and 8 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 54 passages of Vanity Fair sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as William Makepeace Thackeray wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on William Makepeace Thackeray instead.
The Vanity Fair feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of Vanity Fair
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- Two Girls Leave School
- Becky at Russell Square
- Queen's Crawley
- Marriages and Ruin
- Brussels and Waterloo
- Living on Nothing a Year
- The Scandal
- The Puppets Put Away
The author's pen in Vanity Fair
The passages themselves, William Makepeace Thackeray's own words, as Literah maps it.
- The Melancholy of Vanity Fair
- Miss Sharp Flings It Backch. 1
- No Angelch. 2
- Beginning The World Over Againch. 2
- Vanity and Shynessch. 3
- Figs Turns the Fightch. 5
- The Delights of the Gardensch. 6
- Dobbin Walks Behindch. 6
- The Bowl of Rack Punchch. 6
- A Perfect Performerch. 6
- The Great Hall at Queen's Crawleych. 7
- Rotten Borough Incomech. 7
- Imagining a Baronetch. 7
- Rebecca Sends Mrs O'Dowdch. 8
- Miss Crawley's Fortunech. 8
- Winning the Baronet's Confidencech. 10
- Miss Crawley Estrangedch. 16
- Sir Pitt's Furych. 16
- I'll Make Your Fortunech. 16
- The Little Square Pianoch. 17
The characters of Vanity Fair
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Becky Sharpmajor
- Amelia Sedleymajor
- William Dobbinmajor
- George Osbornemajor
- Rawdon Crawleymajor
- Jos Sedleymajor
- Lord Steynemajor
- Miss Crawleysupporting
- Sir Pitt Crawleysupporting
- Pitt Crawleysupporting
- Lady Jane Crawleysupporting
- Mr. Osbornesupporting
- John Sedleysupporting
- Mrs. Sedleysupporting
- Georgy Osbornesupporting
- Little Rawdon Crawleysupporting
The locations in Vanity Fair
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Vanity Fairfairground
- Chiswick Mallschool
- Russell Squarehousehold
- Vauxhallpleasure garden
- Queen’s Crawleycountry estate
- Park Lanetownhouse
- Brightonseaside town
- Chathammilitary town
- Brusselscity
- Waterloo / the battlefield’s shadowbattlefield shadow
- Curzon Streetsalon house
- Gaunt Housearistocratic house
- Fulham / Amelia’s reduced homereduced household
- Germany / the Rhine townstravel region
The core concepts in Vanity Fair
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Society as performance, not truth
- Vanity as a social system
- Ambition as survival and corruption
- Goodness without clear sight can become weakness
- War does not purify society
- Love, loyalty, and self-respect
- A novel without a hero
The objects of note in Vanity Fair
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- Johnson’s Dictionary
- The green silk purse
- The piano Dobbin buys
- Letters and written documents
- Cashmere shawls
- The Osborne family Bible
- Cards and gambling debts
- Jewels and invitations from Lord Steyne’s circle
- Social invitations
- Georgy’s toys
- Military uniform and commission
- Bills and debt papers
- Travel effects and carriage
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