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The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

Chapter 1: THE NEWCOMES
By William Makepeace Thackeray
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An intergenerational portrait follows a respectable family's changing fortunes, centering on an elderly patriarch whose personal integrity contrasts with the ambitions and frailties of his kin. The narrative traces a younger relative's entry into society, romantic entanglements, financial strains and inheritance disputes, with episodes set in domestic, artistic and foreign milieus. The narrator blends satire and sympathy to examine honor, social aspiration, familial obligation and the ways money and reputation reshape affection and identity.

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Title: The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

Release date: February 1, 2005 [eBook #7467]
Most recently updated: May 24, 2024

Language: English

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THE NEWCOMES

MEMOIRS OF A MOST RESPECTABLE FAMILY

Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq.

By William Makepeace Thackeray

Contents

THE NEWCOMES
CHAPTER I.  The Overture—After which the Curtain rises upon a Drinking Chorus
CHAPTER II.  Colonel Newcome’s Wild Oats
CHAPTER III.  Colonel Newcome’s Letter-box
CHAPTER IV.  In which the Author and the Hero resume their Acquaintance
CHAPTER V.  Clive’s Uncles
CHAPTER VI.  Newcome Brothers
CHAPTER VII.  In which Mr. Clive’s School-days are over
CHAPTER VIII.  Mrs. Newcome at Home (a Small Early Party)
CHAPTER IX.  Miss Honeyman’s
CHAPTER X.  Ethel and her Relations
CHAPTER XI.  At Mrs. Ridley’s
CHAPTER XII.  In which everybody is asked to Dinner
CHAPTER XIII.  In which Thomas Newcome sings his Last Song
CHAPTER XIV.  Park Lane
CHAPTER XV.  The Old Ladies
CHAPTER XVI.  In which Mr. Sherrick lets his House in Fitzroy Square
CHAPTER XVII.  A School of Art
CHAPTER XVIII.  New Companions
CHAPTER XIX.  The Colonel at Home
CHAPTER XX.  Contains more Particulars of the Colonel and his Brethren
CHAPTER XXI.  Is Sentimental, but Short
CHAPTER XXII.  Describes a Visit to Paris; with Accidents and Incidents in London
CHAPTER XXIII.  In which we hear a Soprano and a Contralto
CHAPTER XXIV.  In which the Newcome Brothers once more meet together in Unity
CHAPTER XXV.  Is passed in a Public-house
CHAPTER XXVI.  In which Colonel Newcome’s Horses are sold
CHAPTER XXVII.  Youth and Sunshine
CHAPTER XXVIII.  In which Clive begins to see the World
CHAPTER XXIX.  In which Barnes comes a-wooing
CHAPTER XXX.  A Retreat
CHAPTER XXXI.  Madame la Duchesse
CHAPTER XXXII.  Barnes’s Courtship
CHAPTER XXXIII.  Lady Kew at the Congress
CHAPTER XXXIV.  The End of the Congress of Baden
CHAPTER XXXV.  Across the Alps
CHAPTER XXXVI.  In which M. de Florac is promoted
CHAPTER XXXVII.  Returns to Lord Kew
CHAPTER XXXVIII.  In which Lady Kew leaves his Lordship quite convalescent
CHAPTER XXXIX.  Amongst the Painters
CHAPTER XL.  Returns from Rome to Pall Mall
CHAPTER XLI.  An Old Story
CHAPTER XLII.  Injured Innocence
CHAPTER XLIII.  Returns to some Old Friends
CHAPTER XLIV.  In which Mr. Charles Honeyman appears in an Amiable Light
CHAPTER XLV.  A Stag of Ten
CHAPTER XLVI.  The Hotel de Florac
CHAPTER XLVII.  Contains two or three Acts of a Little Comedy
CHAPTER XLVIII.  In which Benedick is a Married Man
CHAPTER XLIX.  Contains at least six more Courses and two Desserts
CHAPTER L.  Clive in New Quarters
CHAPTER LI.  An Old Friend
CHAPTER LII.  Family Secrets
CHAPTER LIII.  In which Kinsmen fall out
CHAPTER LIV.  Has a Tragical Ending
CHAPTER LV.  Barnes’s Skeleton Closet
CHAPTER LVI.  Rosa quo locorum sera moratur
CHAPTER LVII.  Rosebury and Newcome
CHAPTER LVIII.  “One more Unfortunate”
CHAPTER LIX.  In which Achilles loses Briseis
CHAPTER LX.  In which we write to the Colonel
CHAPTER LXI.  In which we are introduced to a New Newcome
CHAPTER LXII.  Mr. and Mrs. Clive Newcome
CHAPTER LXIII.  Mrs. Clive at Home
CHAPTER LXIV.  Absit Omen
CHAPTER LXV.  In which Mrs. Clive comes into her Fortune
CHAPTER LXVI.  In which the Colonel and the Newcome Athenæum are both lectured
CHAPTER LXVII.  Newcome and Liberty
CHAPTER LXVIII.  A Letter and a Reconciliation
CHAPTER LXIX.  The Election
CHAPTER LXX.  Chiltern Hundreds
CHAPTER LXXI.  In which Mrs. Clive Newcome’s Carriage is ordered
CHAPTER LXXII.  Belisarius
CHAPTER LXXIII.  In which Belisarius returns from Exile
CHAPTER LXXIV.  In which Clive begins the World
CHAPTER LXXV.  Founder’s Day at the Grey Friars
CHAPTER LXXVI.  Christmas at Rosebury
CHAPTER LXXVII.  The Shortest and Happiest in the Whole History
CHAPTER LXXVIII.  In which the Author goes on a Pleasant Errand
CHAPTER LXXIX.  In which Old Friends come together
CHAPTER LXXX.  In which the Colonel says “Adsum” when his Name is called