THE NEWCOMES: MEMOIRS OF A MOST RESPECTABLE FAMILY
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1901. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq. Illustrated by Richard Doyle. Facsimile reproductions of illustrated cover images in front pages. 844 pp. 32 pages of advertisements at conclusion of book. Blue cloth covers with gilt title on front and faded gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners and edges rubbed and worn to boards, scuffing and marks to cover faces, wear to joints. Spine is faded from exposure, spine ends are bent and frayed. Cocked spine. Darkened top page edge. Front hinge broken. Interior page edges browning, some foxing spots throughout. Book in Good condition.. Cloth. Good. Illus. by Illustrations. Size: Approx. 5 " x 7 3/4". Fiction.
Synopsis
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, and this edition provides particularly detailed notes which clarify his many references.
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- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006675
- Title
- THE NEWCOMES: MEMOIRS OF A MOST RESPECTABLE FAMILY
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Illustrator
- Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- William Thackeray, Famous Authors, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 5 " x 7 3/4"
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