Description: THE NEWCOMES 2 VOLUMES BY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 1889 FIRST EDITION HARDBACK The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1854 and 1855. The novel tells the story of Colonel Thomas Newcome, a virtuous and upstanding character. It is equally the story of Colonel Newcome's son, Clive, who studies and travels for the purpose of becoming a painter, although the profession is frowned on by some of his relatives and acquaintances — notably Clive's snobbish, backstabbing cousin Barnes Newcome. Colonel Newcome goes out to India for decades, then returns to England where Clive meets his cousin Ethel. After years in England, the colonel returns to India for another several years and while he is there, Clive travels Europe and his love for Ethel waxes and wanes. Dozens of background characters appear, fade, and reappear. The colonel and Clive are only the central figures in The Newcomes, the action of which begins before the colonel's birth. Over several generations the Newcome family rises into wealth and respectability as bankers and begin to marry into the minor aristocracy. A theme that runs throughout the novel is the practice of marrying for money. Herein we find first use of the coined word "capitalism", as reference an economic system. Religion is another theme, particularly Methodism. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 482, 478 PP, 6 3/4" X 4 3/4" PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN COMPANY NOT EX-LIB HEAVY BOOKS I AM ESTIMATING INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING COST. WHEN THE ITEM IS MAILED, I WILL GIVE A REFUND OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BILLED SHIPPING COST AND THE ACTUAL SHIPPING COST.
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