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The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

William Makepeace Thackeray

The story follows Colonel Thomas Newcome, a virtuous man, and his son Clive, who aspires to become a painter despite family disapproval.

"The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a novel. The story follows Colonel Thomas Newcome, a virtuous man, and his son Clive, who aspires to become a painter despite family disapproval.

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A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy-window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him. The frog’s hideous large eyes were goggling out of his head in a manner which appeared quite ridiculous to the old blackamoor, who watched the splay-footed slimy wretch with that peculiar grim humour belonging to crows. Not far from the frog a fat ox was browsing; whilst a few lambs frisked about the meadow, or nibbled the grass and buttercups there.

Who should come in to the farther end of the field but a wolf? He was so cunningly dressed up in sheep’s clothing, that the very lambs did not know Master Wolf; nay, one of them, whose dam the wolf had just eaten, after which he had thrown her skin over his shoulders, ran up innocently towards the devouring monster, mistaking him for her mamma.

“He, he!” says a fox, sneaking round the hedge-paling, over which the tree grew, whereupon the crow was perched looking down on the frog, who was staring with his goggle eyes fit to burst with envy, and croaking abuse at the ox. “How absurd those lambs are! Yonder silly little knock-kneed baah-ling does not know the old wolf dressed in the sheep’s fleece. He is the same old rogue who gobbled up little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother for lunch, and swallowed little Red Riding Hood for supper. Tirez la bobinette et la chevillette cherra. He, he!”

Contents

  1. 01The Newcomes
  2. 02Chapter I. The Overture—After which the Curtain rises upon a Drinking Chorus
  3. 03Chapter II. Colonel Newcome’s Wild Oats
  4. 04Chapter III. Colonel Newcome’s Letter-box
  5. 05I.
  6. 06II.
  7. 07III.
  8. 08IV.
  9. 09V.
  10. 10VI.
  11. 11Chapter IV. In which the Author and the Hero resume their Acquaintance
  12. 12Chapter V. Clive’s Uncles
  13. 13Chapter VI. Newcome Brothers
  14. 14Chapter VII. In which Mr. Clive’s School-days are over
  15. 15Chapter VIII. Mrs. Newcome at Home (a Small Early Party)
  16. 16Chapter IX. Miss Honeyman’s
  17. 17Chapter X. Ethel and her Relations
  18. 18Chapter XI. At Mrs. Ridley’s
  19. 19Chapter XII. In which everybody is asked to Dinner
  20. 20Chapter XIII. In which Thomas Newcome sings his Last Song
  21. 21Chapter XIV. Park Lane
  22. 22Chapter XV. The Old Ladies
  23. 23Chapter XVI. In which Mr. Sherrick lets his House in Fitzroy Square
  24. 24Chapter XVII. A School of Art
  25. 25Chapter XVIII. New Companions
  26. 26Chapter XIX. The Colonel at Home
  27. 27Chapter XX. Contains more Particulars of the Colonel and his Brethren
  28. 28Chapter XXI. Is Sentimental, but Short
  29. 29Chapter XXII. Describes a Visit to Paris; with Accidents and Incidents in London
  30. 30Chapter XXIII. In which we hear a Soprano and a Contralto
  31. 31Chapter XXIV. In which the Newcome Brothers once more meet together in Unity
  32. 32Chapter XXV. Is passed in a Public-house
  33. 33Chapter XXVI. In which Colonel Newcome’s Horses are sold
  34. 34Chapter XXVII. Youth and Sunshine
  35. 35Chapter XXVIII. In which Clive begins to see the World
  36. 36Chapter XXIX. In which Barnes comes a-wooing
  37. 37Chapter XXX. A Retreat
  38. 38Chapter XXXI. Madame la Duchesse
  39. 39Chapter XXXII. Barnes’s Courtship
  40. 40Chapter XXXIII. Lady Kew at the Congress
  41. 41Chapter XXXIV. The End of the Congress of Baden
  42. 42Chapter XXXV. Across the Alps
  43. 43Chapter XXXVI. In which M. de Florac is promoted
  44. 44Chapter XXXVII. Returns to Lord Kew
  45. 45Chapter XXXVIII. In which Lady Kew leaves his Lordship quite convalescent
  46. 46Chapter XXXIX. Amongst the Painters
  47. 47Chapter XL. Returns from Rome to Pall Mall
  48. 48Chapter XLI. An Old Story
  49. 49Chapter XLII. Injured Innocence
  50. 50Chapter XLIII. Returns to some Old Friends
  51. 51Chapter XLIV. In which Mr. Charles Honeyman appears in an Amiable Light
  52. 52Chapter XLV. A Stag of Ten
  53. 53Chapter XLVI. The Hotel de Florac
  54. 54Chapter XLVII. Contains two or three Acts of a Little Comedy
  55. 55Chapter XLVIII. In which Benedick is a Married Man
  56. 56Chapter XLIX. Contains at least six more Courses and two Desserts
  57. 57Chapter L. Clive in New Quarters
  58. 58Chapter LI. An Old Friend
  59. 59Chapter LII. Family Secrets
  60. 60Chapter LIII. In which Kinsmen fall out

About this edition

Author
William Makepeace Thackeray
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
971 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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