Characters:
- Miss Pinkerton's Academy
- Becky Sharp
- Amelia Sedley
- George Osborne
- Joseph Sedley
- Pitt Crawley
- Captain Rawdon Crawley
- Dobbin
- Lord Steyne
Plot summary:
- Amelia and Becky are students at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for young ladies. After Amelia's completion of her studies there, she invites Becky to her home.
- Becky meets Amelia's lover, George Osborne, and her brother, Joseph Sedley, who is a clumsy and vainglorious official serving in India. Because of his wealth and status, Becky purposely chooses to entice him, but fails as a result of Joseph's shyness.
- Becky leaves to become a governess at Pitt Crawley's home. Sir Pitt proposes to marry her, but she rejects him. Becky instead elopes with Captain Rawdon Crawley, who then becomes disinherited by his rich aunt.
- Amelia's father goes bankrupt but George Osborne, persuaded by his friend Dobbin, marries Amelia in spite of her poverty and his father's fierce objection.
- George Osborne and Dobbin are sent to Brussels to fight the French army. There, George meets Becky and Crawley. Osborne becomes attracted to Becky.
- Osborne is sent to Waterloo and is killed in battle. Dobbin expresses more concern towards his widow Amelia and his child. However, his regiment was dispatched abroad before he could confess his true feelings.
- After the war, Becky and Rawdon Crawley go to Paris and accumulate large amounts of debt before returning to London. Rawdon discovers Becky's relationship with Lord Steyne and abandons his wife, moving abroad. Becky becomes a wanderer.
- Amelia's son George is taken away by his grandfather as Amelia's family lacks the money to raise him properly. Dobbin and Jospeh Sedley return to England and Dobbin professes his love to Amelia, but she cannot forget the memory of George. Nonetheless, Dobbin manages a reconciliation between Amelia and her father-in-law, and Mr. Osborne's death leaves Amelia and young George a large fortune.
- Amelia, Joseph, George and Dobbin go on a trip to Germany where they encounter the destitute Becky. Dobbin again professes his love to Amelia but she rejects him a second time and leaves her. Becky, in a moment of conscience, shows Amelia the note George wrote her about eloping before he died, thus breaking the idealized image of George in Amelia's mind. Dobbin and Amelia are brought together.
- Becky resumes her seduction of Joseph Sedley who eventually dies of a suspicious ailment after signing a portion of his money to Becky.
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