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the Newcomes: memoirs of a most respectable family edited by Arthur Pendennis Esq
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1903. Reissued. Leather. Good/No Dust Jacket. 200 g; VIII 928 pages, printed on India paper. Halftone frontispiece with a foxed tissue guard. Handling marks to the front edge of the text block, top edge of text block gilt, frazzling of the red ribbon place marker, rubbing of the top of the spine. Ownership inscription dated October 1904 on the verso of the front end page. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Leather Bound; Inventory No: 0218997. .
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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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0218997
- Title
- the Newcomes: memoirs of a most respectable family edited by Arthur Pendennis Esq
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reissued
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- BZDB2 novel, Leather Literature & Literary; Leather Bound; Unbranded Thackeray, William Makepeace the Newcomes: memoirs of a most respectable family edited by Arthur Pendennis Esq
- Bookseller catalogs
- Leather Bound;
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Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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