《名利场》是英国十九世纪小说家萨克雷的成名作品，故事取材于很热闹的英国十九世纪中上层社会。故事主角是一个机灵乖巧的漂亮姑娘。她尝过贫穷的滋味，一心要掌握自己的命运，摆脱困境。她不择手段，凭谄媚奉承、走小道儿钻后门，飞上高枝，构成一个引人关怀又动人情感的故事。穿插的人物形形色色，都神情毕肖。萨克雷富讥智，善讽刺，《名利场》是逗趣而又启人深思的小说。

小说以两个年轻女子蓓基·夏泼和爱米丽亚的一生为主线，展示了19世纪初期英国上层社会的生活画面。《名利场》的故事以两条线索展开，从同一个起点出发，相互交织，最后到达同一个终点。其中一条线索讲述善良、笨拙、生活在富有家庭中的女子爱米丽亚；另一条线索讲述机灵、自私、放荡不羁的孤女蓓基·夏泼。两人于1813年乘坐同一辆马车离开平克顿女子学校，都在遭到家庭反对的情况下于1815年结婚，分别嫁给即将参加滑铁卢战役的两名英国军官。新婚不久，那场具有历史意义的战役打响了。爱米丽亚的丈夫战死疆场，蓓基的丈夫战后生还。接下来的十年中，蓓基生活一帆风顺，在社会的阶梯上不断攀升，直至有幸觐见国王，而爱米丽亚却因父亲破产承受着极大的不幸。到了1827年，命运发生了逆转，蓓基的生活落入毁灭的深渊，这其实是罪有应得；爱米丽亚却转而变得富裕幸福，可归因于善有善报。但是，作者以灵活的讽刺手法，使两位女主角最后的命运归于平衡，仿佛在一个大的轮回之后，回到故事开始时两人命运的起点。《名利场》以“没有主角的小说”为其副标题，说明本书不以个别人物的刻画为重心，而着意于这个社会。

Chapter 1 Chiswick Mall

Chapter 2 In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign

Chapter 3 Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy

Chapter 4 The Green Silk Purse

Chapter 5 Dobbin of Ours

Chapter 6 Vauxhall

Chapter 7 Crawley of Queen's Crawley

Chapter 8 Private and Confidential

Chapter 9 Family Portraits

Chapter 10 Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends

Chapter 11 Arcadian Simplicity

ChaPter 12 Quite a Sentimental Chapter

Chapter 13 Sentimental and Otherwise

Chapter 14 Miss Crawley at Home

Chapter 15 In Which Rebecca's Husband Appears for a Short Time

Chapter 16 The Letter on the Pincushion

Chapter 17 How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano

Chapter 18 Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought?

Chapter 19 Miss Crawley at Nurse

Chapter 20 In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen

Chapter 21 A Quarrel about an Heiress

Chapter 22 A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon

Chapter 23 Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass

Chapter 24 In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Downthe Family Bible

Chapter 25 In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton

Chapter 26 Between London and Chatham

Chapter 27 In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment

Chapter 28 In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries

Chapter 29 Brussels

Chapter 30 "The Girl I Left behind Me"

Chapter 31 In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister

Chapter 32 In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close

Chapter 33 In Which Miss Crawley's Relations Are Very Anxious about Her

Chapter 34 James Crawley's Pipe Is Put Out

Chapter 35 Widow and Mother

Chapter 36 How to Live Well on Nothing a Year

Chapter 37 The Subject Continued

Chapter 38 A Family in a Very Small Way

Chapter 39 A Cynical Chapter

Chapter 40 In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family

Chapter 41 In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors

Chapter 42 Which Treats of the Osborne Family

Chapier 43 In Which the Reader Has to Double the Cape

Chapter 44 A Roundabout Chapter between London and Hampshire

Chapter 45 Between Hampshire and London

Chapter 46 Struggles and Trials

Chapter 47 Gaunt House

Chapter 48 In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company

Chapter 49 In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert

Chapter 50 Contains a Vulgar Incident

Chapter 51 In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader

Chapter 52 In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light

Chapter 53 A Rescue and a Catastrophe

Chapter 54 Sunday after the Battle

Chapier 55 In Which the Same Subject Is Pursued

Chapter 56 Georgy is Made a Gentleman

Chapter 57 Eothen

Chapter 58 Our Friend the Major

Chapter 59 The Old Piano

Chapter 60 Returns to the Genteel World

Chapter 61 In Which Two Lights Are Put Out

Chapter 62 Am Rhein

Chapter 63 In Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance

Chapter 64 AVagabond Chapter

Chapter 65 Full of Business and Pleasure

Chapter 66 Amantium Ira

Chapter 67 Which Contains Births, Marriages,and Deaths