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The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
de Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Usado
- good
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- Good/No Jacket
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq. Illustrated Library Edition of the Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray with 145 illustrations or decorations by Richard Doyle and with introductory notes setting forth the history of the work. Volumes IX and X only, a two (2) volume set of The Newcomes. 8vo sized dark green cloth bound hardcovers have bright gilt titles on the spine. Volume 1 has 482 toned pages with tanned edges. From page 1: "A crow who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window set perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him..." From page 89: "Meanwhile, Colonel Newcombe, indifferent to the direction which Miss Lebrun's eyes took, whether towards his hat or his boots, was surveying his little nieces with that kind expression which his face always wore when it was turned towards children. "Have you heard of your uncle in India?" he asked them..." Names on fep. Bumped corners and head and heel of spine. Small stain or fingermark in the margin of page vii and page 3. Volume 2 has 483 toned pages with lightly tanned margins. From page 17: "So he was back amongst us, and it seemed but yesterday he had quitted us To Londoners everything seems to have happened but yesterday; nobody has time to miss his neighbor who goes away. People go the Cape, or on a campaign, or on a tour round the world, or to India, and return with a wife and two or three children..." Name on fep and following page. Bumped corners and head and heel of spine. Two inch crack to rear pastedown, but book is very firmly bound. No additional shipping charges if sent via US Media Mail. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Doyle, Richard. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopsis
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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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
- Autor
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Ilustrador
- Doyle, Richard
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1889
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- antiquarian; Two Volume set; 2 volumes; illustrated; the Riverside Press;
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