Newcomes

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

Authors: William Makepeace Thackeray In Year : 1854

Book Language: English

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Chapter 1: The Overture—After which the Curtain rises upon a Drinking Chorus
Chapter 2: Colonel Newcome's Wild Oats
Chapter 3: Colonel Newcome's Letter-box
Chapter 4: In which the Author and the Hero resume their Acquaintance
Chapter 5: Clive's Uncles
Chapter 6: Newcome Brothers
Chapter 7: In which Mr. Clive's School-days are over
Chapter 8: Mrs. Newcome at Home (a Small Early Party)
Chapter 9: Miss Honeyman's
Chapter 10: Ethel and her Relations
Chapter 11: At Mrs. Ridley's
Chapter 12: In which everybody is asked to Dinner
Chapter 13: In which Thomas Newcome sings his Last Song
Chapter 14: Park Lane
Chapter 15: The Old Ladies
Chapter 16: In which Mr. Sherrick lets his House in Fitzroy Square
Chapter 17: A School of Art
Chapter 18: New Companions
Chapter 19: The Colonel at Home
Chapter 20: Contains more Particulars of the Colonel and his Brethren
Chapter 21: Is Sentimental, but Short
Chapter 22: Describes a Visit to Paris; with Accidents and Incidents
Chapter 23: In which we hear a Soprano and a Contralto
Chapter 24: In which the Newcome Brothers once more meet together in Unity
Chapter 25: Is passed in a Public-house
Chapter 26: In which Colonel Newcome's Horses are sold
Chapter 27: Youth and Sunshine
Chapter 28: In which Clive begins to see the World
Chapter 29: In which Barnes comes a-wooing
Chapter 30: A Retreat
Chapter 31: Madame la Duchesse
Chapter 32: Barnes's Courtship
Chapter 33: Lady Kew at the Congress
Chapter 34: The End of the Congress of Baden
Chapter 35: Across the Alps
Chapter 36: In which M. de Florac is promoted
Chapter 37: Return to Lord Kew
Chapter 38: In which Lady Kew leaves his Lordship quite convalescent
Chapter 39: Amongst the Painters
Chapter 40: Returns from Rome to Pall Mall
Chapter 41: An Old Story
Chapter 42: Injured Innocence
Chapter 43: Returns to some Old Friends
Chapter 44: In which Mr. Charles Honeyman appears in an Amiable Light
Chapter 45: A Stag of Ten
Chapter 46: The Hotel de Florac
Chapter 47: Contains two or three Acts of a Little Comedy
Chapter 48: In which Benedick is a Married Man
Chapter 49: Contains at least six more Courses and two Desserts
Chapter 50: Clive in New Quarters
Chapter 51: An Old Friend
Chapter 52: Family Secrets
Chapter 53: In which Kinsmen fall out
Chapter 54: Has a Tragical Ending
Chapter 55: Barnes's Skeleton Closet
Chapter 56: Rosa quo locorum sera moratur
Chapter 57: Rosebury and Newcome
Chapter 58: “One more Unfortunate”
Chapter 59: In which Achilles loses Briseis
Chapter 60: In which we write to the Colonel
Chapter 61: In which we are introduced to a New Newcome
Chapter 62: Mr. and Mrs. Clive Newcome
Chapter 63: Mrs. Clive at Home
Chapter 64: Absit Omen
Chapter 65: In which Mrs. Clive comes into her Fortune
Chapter 66: In which the Colonel and the Newcome Athenaeum are both lectured
Chapter 67: Newcome and Liberty
Chapter 68: A Letter and a Reconciliation
Chapter 69: The Election
Chapter 70: Chiltern Hundreds
Chapter 71: In which Mrs. Clive Newcome's Carriage is ordered
Chapter 72: Belisarius
Chapter 73: In which Belisarius returns from Exile
Chapter 74: In which Clive begins the World
Chapter 75: Founder's Day at the Grey Friars
Chapter 76: Christmas at Rosebury
Chapter 77: The Shortest and Happiest in the Whole History
Chapter 78: In which the Author goes on a Pleasant Errand
Chapter 79: In which Old Friends come together
Chapter 80: In which the Colonel says “Adsum” when his Name is called

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The Book Of Snobs. It tells the story of a few generations of the Newcome family: their rise to respectability, marriages, love, and the culture in which they lived. The novel teaches the reader what it was like to live in Victorian England - Summary by Stav Nisser