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The Newcomes

by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Author
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
Title
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
Credits
Credits: Tapio Riikonen and David Widger
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Families -- England -- Fiction
Category
Text
eBook-No.
7467
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7467
Release Date
February 1, 2005
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE NEWCOMES — MEMOIRS OF A MOST RESPECTABLE FAMILY — Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq. — By William Makepeace Thackeray — Contents
  2. 2.THE NEWCOMES
  3. 3.CHAPTER I. The Overture—After which the Curtain rises upon a Drinking Chorus
  4. 4.CHAPTER II. Colonel Newcome’s Wild Oats
  5. 5.CHAPTER III. Colonel Newcome’s Letter-box — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI.
  6. 6.CHAPTER IV. In which the Author and the Hero resume their Acquaintance
  7. 7.CHAPTER V. Clive’s Uncles
  8. 8.CHAPTER VI. Newcome Brothers
  9. 9.CHAPTER VII. In which Mr. Clive’s School-days are over
  10. 10.CHAPTER VIII. Mrs. Newcome at Home (a Small Early Party)
  11. 11.CHAPTER IX. Miss Honeyman’s
  12. 12.CHAPTER X. Ethel and her Relations
  13. 13.CHAPTER XI. At Mrs. Ridley’s
  14. 14.CHAPTER XII. In which everybody is asked to Dinner
  15. 15.CHAPTER XIII. In which Thomas Newcome sings his Last Song
  16. 16.CHAPTER XIV. Park Lane
  17. 17.CHAPTER XV. The Old Ladies
  18. 18.CHAPTER XVI. In which Mr. Sherrick lets his House in Fitzroy Square
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVII. A School of Art
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVIII. New Companions
  21. 21.CHAPTER XIX. The Colonel at Home
  22. 22.CHAPTER XX. Contains more Particulars of the Colonel and his Brethren
  23. 23.CHAPTER XXI. Is Sentimental, but Short
  24. 24.CHAPTER XXII. Describes a Visit to Paris; with Accidents and Incidents in London
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXIII. In which we hear a Soprano and a Contralto
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXIV. In which the Newcome Brothers once more meet together in Unity
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXV. Is passed in a Public-house
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXVI. In which Colonel Newcome’s Horses are sold
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXVII. Youth and Sunshine
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXVIII. In which Clive begins to see the World
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXIX. In which Barnes comes a-wooing
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXX. A Retreat
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXXI. Madame la Duchesse
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXXII. Barnes’s Courtship
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXXIII. Lady Kew at the Congress
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXXIV. The End of the Congress of Baden
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXV. Across the Alps
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXVI. In which M. de Florac is promoted
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXXVII. Returns to Lord Kew
  40. 40.CHAPTER XXXVIII. In which Lady Kew leaves his Lordship quite convalescent
  41. 41.CHAPTER XXXIX. Amongst the Painters
  42. 42.CHAPTER XL. Returns from Rome to Pall Mall
  43. 43.CHAPTER XLI. An Old Story
  44. 44.CHAPTER XLII. Injured Innocence
  45. 45.CHAPTER XLIII. Returns to some Old Friends
  46. 46.CHAPTER XLIV. In which Mr. Charles Honeyman appears in an Amiable Light
  47. 47.CHAPTER XLV. A Stag of Ten
  48. 48.CHAPTER XLVI. The Hotel de Florac
  49. 49.CHAPTER XLVII. Contains two or three Acts of a Little Comedy
  50. 50.CHAPTER XLVIII. In which Benedick is a Married Man
  51. 51.CHAPTER XLIX. Contains at least six more Courses and two Desserts
  52. 52.CHAPTER L. Clive in New Quarters
  53. 53.CHAPTER LI. An Old Friend
  54. 54.CHAPTER LII. Family Secrets
  55. 55.CHAPTER LIII. In which Kinsmen fall out
  56. 56.CHAPTER LIV. Has a Tragical Ending
  57. 57.CHAPTER LV. Barnes’s Skeleton Closet
  58. 58.CHAPTER LVI. Rosa quo locorum sera moratur
  59. 59.CHAPTER LVII. Rosebury and Newcome
  60. 60.CHAPTER LVIII. “One more Unfortunate”
  61. 61.CHAPTER LIX. In which Achilles loses Briseis
  62. 62.CHAPTER LX. In which we write to the Colonel
  63. 63.CHAPTER LXI. In which we are introduced to a New Newcome
  64. 64.CHAPTER LXII. Mr. and Mrs. Clive Newcome
  65. 65.CHAPTER LXIII. Mrs. Clive at Home
  66. 66.CHAPTER LXIV. Absit Omen
  67. 67.CHAPTER LXV. In which Mrs. Clive comes into her Fortune
  68. 68.CHAPTER LXVI. In which the Colonel and the Newcome Athenæum are both lectured
  69. 69.CHAPTER LXVII. Newcome and Liberty
  70. 70.CHAPTER LXVIII. A Letter and a Reconciliation
  71. 71.CHAPTER LXIX. The Election
  72. 72.CHAPTER LXX. Chiltern Hundreds
  73. 73.CHAPTER LXXI. In which Mrs. Clive Newcome’s Carriage is ordered
  74. 74.CHAPTER LXXII. Belisarius
  75. 75.CHAPTER LXXIII. In which Belisarius returns from Exile
  76. 76.CHAPTER LXXIV. In which Clive begins the World
  77. 77.CHAPTER LXXV. Founder’s Day at the Grey Friars
  78. 78.CHAPTER LXXVI. Christmas at Rosebury
  79. 79.CHAPTER LXXVII. The Shortest and Happiest in the Whole History
  80. 80.CHAPTER LXXVIII. In which the Author goes on a Pleasant Errand
  81. 81.CHAPTER LXXIX. In which Old Friends come together
  82. 82.CHAPTER LXXX. In which the Colonel says “Adsum” when his Name is called

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