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Description: THE NEWCOMES = Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family . HB in very good condtion. N o writing no marks. Spine is tight no loose or missing pages. No Dustjacket. Printed for The Heritage Press with a introduction by Angela Thirkell and with illustrations ( a lot of them!) by Edward Ardizzone. 761 pages. Shipping wt. is 2 lb 15 oz. Clean and nice looking. The Newcomes is Thackeray's most essentially 'Victorian' novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the moral convolutions of the age, and encyclopaedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and of political and economic development, the novel considers the fortunes and misfortunes of a 'most respectable' extended middle-class family. The action moves from London to Brighton, from England to France, from the political ambitions of an older generation in the industrial North to the painterly pretensions of a younger generation in Italy. At its centre is Thomas Newcome, a retired Colonel in the Indian Army who finds the snobberies and hypocrisies of early Victorian England disconcerting. In a world of men on the make, of social mobility, and of the buying and selling of women in an aristocratic marriage market, it is the Colonel's distinctive but old-fashioned gentlemanliness that stands out from a self-seeking society.The most observant and witty among Thackeray's studies of his culture, The Newcomes is also among his most complex and allusive novels. The hero, Clive Newcome, loves his cousin Ethel but their union is thwarted by human weakness, the villainous Barnes and Lady Kew. The novel attacks Victorian respectability and the unhappy marriages and misalliances engendered in a society shown to be mercenary and self-aggrandizing.
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