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Title: The Newcomes

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

Release Date: February, 2005 [EBook #7467]
Posting Date: July 28, 2009

Language: English

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THE NEWCOMES

MEMOIRS OF A MOST RESPECTABLE FAMILY

Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq.

By William Makepeace Thackeray

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I The Overture--After which the Curtain rises upon a Drinking
Chorus
II Colonel Newcome's Wild Oats
III Colonel Newcome's Letter-box
IV In which the Author and the Hero resume their Acquaintance
V Clive's Uncles
VI Newcome Brothers
VII In which Mr. Clive's School-days are over
VIII Mrs. Newcome at Home (a Small Early Party)
IX Miss Honeyman's
X Ethel and her Relations
XI At Mrs. Ridley's
XII In which Everybody is asked to Dinner
XIII In which Thomas Newcome sings his last Song
XIV Park Lane
XV The Old Ladies
XVI In which Mr. Sherrick lets his House in Fitzroy Square
XVII A School of Art
XVIII New Companions
XIX The colonel at Home
XX Contains more Particulars of the Colonel and his Brethren
XXI Is Sentimental, but Short
XXII Describes a Visit to Paris; with Accidents and Incidents
in London
XXIII In which we hear a Soprano and a Contralto
XXIV In which the Newcome Brothers once more meet together in Unity
XXV Is passed in a Public-house
XXVI In which Colonel Newcome's Horses are sold
XXVII Youth and Sunshine
XXVIII In which Clive begins to see the World
XXIX In which Barnes comes a-Wooing
XXX A Retreat
XXXI Madame la Duchesse
XXXII Barnes's Courtship
XXXIII Lady Kew at the Congress
XXXIV The End of the Congress of Baden
XXXV Across the Alps
XXXVI In which M. de Florac is promoted
XXXVII Returns to Lord Kew
XXXVIII In which Lady Kew leaves his Lordship quite Convalescent