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The novel tells the story of Colonel Thomas Newcome, a virtuous and upstanding character. It is equally the story of Colonel Newcome's son, Clive, who studies and travels for the purpose of becoming a painter, although the profession is frowned on by some of his relatives and... Read Full Overview

The Newcomes is Thackeray's most "Victorian" novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the morality of the age, and encyclopedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and of political and economic development, the novel considers... Read Full Overview

This collection of Thackeray's works includes his masterpiece, The Newcomes. This novel offers a poignant and detailed portrait of the mid-19th century British upper class. Readers interested in British literature and social history will find Thackeray's writing to be both... Read Full Overview

Sir Brian Newcome's marriage into the aristocratic Kew family brought titled respectability to his family's 'new' money. Now the marriage of his daughter Ethel is of crucial importance to both families in their quest for further advancement.

The Newcomes: Memoirs Of A Most Respectable Family is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. The story follows the lives of the Newcome family, a wealthy and respectable family in Victorian England. The main character is Colonel Thomas Newcome, a kind and honorable man who struggles... Read Full Overview

William Makepeace Thackeray was one of the mid-19th century's most popular authors, and this is one of his famous works, which is still widely read today.

Partly autobiographical, The Newcomes is one of Thackeray's greatest novels and in some ways a successor to The History of Pendennis.

The University of Michigan Press is proud to announce that it has assumed publication of the Thackeray Edition, the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years. This edition is the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts... Read Full Overview

Facsimile of the 1904 publication by Charles Scribner and Sons, New York.

"The Newcomes" from William Makepeace Thackeray. English novelist of the 19th century (1811-1863).

The novel tells the story of Colonel Thomas Newcome, a virtuous and upstanding character. It is equally the story of Colonel Newcome's son, Clive, who studies and travels for the purpose of becoming a painter, although the profession is frowned on by some of his relatives and... Read Full Overview

The Newcomes is a novel written by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in 1855. The story follows the lives of the Newcome family, a wealthy and respected British family, as they navigate the social and political landscape of Victorian England.The patriarch of the... Read Full Overview

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