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The Newcomes

The Newcomes

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Number of Chapters: 80

Length: 41 hours and 34 minutes

Language: English

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

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