Violence
ModerateWounded soldiers groan in carts, and one has a spear injury to his leg. A later revelation identifies George as fatally shot; elaborate gore is not described in this passage.
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Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair is a satirical novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial (the last containing parts 19 and 20) from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, which reflects both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text.
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William Makepeace Thackeray; English Project Gutenberg599. Assessed passage: ChapterXXXII In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close; wounded arrivals through George's death revelation, web lines3192–3248.
Frightening & intense themes
ModerateCannon fire and anxious waiting accompany battlefield casualties, ending with George's death while Amelia prays for him.
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