The Newcomes - Free Audiobook

The Newcomes - Free Audiobook

Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray,

Language: English

1 / 80Chapter 1: The Overture—After which the Curtain rises upon a Drinking Chorus

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

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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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