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The Newcomes

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 thefortunes an...

Author：William Makepeace Thackeray威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷 Tag： Classical

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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

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