The Newcomes

Género(s): Biografías y memorias ficticias

Narradores:TR Love, C.Gilson, jenno, Matea Bracic, Ariphron, roselbex, Ryan Lohner, Tad Davis, Alysson Light, Christoph Stangenberg, Maddie Burns, czandra, Aysh

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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