萨克雷（William Makepeace Thackeray,1811-1863），英国小说家。父亲是东印度公司的税务员兼行政官，萨克雷出生于印度的加尔各答，四岁时父亲辞世，萨克雷随之被送回英国受教育。后入剑桥大学，一面写作诗歌，同时热衷于赌博，在欧陆各国过着放浪形骸的生活。在德国游学期间结识了大作家沃尔夫冈·歌德，并曾一度至巴黎攻读美术。萨克雷用其父的遗产做投资杂志及银行代理，均告失败。萨克雷自1833年起即用笔名在报刊发表文章，也出了几本书，但直至写出长篇小说《名利场》，才被世人公认为与同时代的狄更斯齐名的天才作家。除写作小说外，他的散文也独树一帜，《巴黎小品集》、《爱尔兰小品集》、《势利眼集》，亦文笔隽永，为广大读者所喜爱。
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 Purse
CHAPTERV Dobbin of Ours
CHAPTER VI Vauxhall
CHAPTERVII Crawley of Queen's Crawley
CHAPTERVIII Private and Confidential
CHAPTER IX Family Portraits
CHAPTER X Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
CHAPTER XI Arcadian Simplicity
CHAPTER XII Quite a Sentimental Chapter
CHAPTERXIII Sentimental and Otherwise
CHAPTERXIV Miss Crawley at Home
CHAPTER XV In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time
CHAPTER XVI The Letter on the Pincushion
CHAPTERXVII 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
CHAPTERXXIII Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass
CHAPTER XXIV In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible
CHAPTERXXV InWhichAll the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton
CHAPTER XXVI Between London and Chatham
CHAPTERXXVII InWhich Amelia Joins Her Regiment
CHAPTERXXVIII 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
CHAPTERXXXII In WhichJos 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
CHAPTERXXXV Widow and Mother
CHAPTER XXXVI How to Live Well on Nothing a Year
CHAPTERXXXVII The Subject Continued
CHAPTERXXXVIII 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 HerAncestors
CHAPTER XLII Which Treats of the Osborne Family
CHAPTER XLIII In Which the Reader Has to Doublethe Cape
CHAPTER XLIV A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire
CHAPTERXLV Between Hampshire and London
CHAPIAPTER XLVI Struggles and Trials
CHAPTERXLVII Gaunt House
CHAPTER XL VHI In Which the Reader Is Introducedto the Very Best of Company
CHAPTERXL IX 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 LI! In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light
CHAPTER LIII A Rescue and a Catastrophe
CHAPTER LIV Sunday After the Battle
CHAPTER 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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