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The Newcomes: Memoirs Of A Most Respectable Family
by William Makepeace Thackeray
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
Smith, Elder & Co., 1882. Hardcover. Good. 1882. No Edition Remarks. 776 pages. No dust jacket. Green boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking to hinges, moderate tanning and occasional foxing. Boards have mild edge wear with light rubbing and crushing. Some light marking and tanning. Gilt lettering is darkened. There is bumping to corners.
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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- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1630401821LSA
- Title
- The Newcomes: Memoirs Of A Most Respectable Family
- Author
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder & Co.
- Date Published
- 1882
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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