The Newcomes
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Taste attributes: dramahistoricalfamilyfresh & originalrealisticlinearemotive & stirringsocial commentarycomplex relationshiphuman spirit/resilience/survival
Boxlist takeA fresh, grounded novel, otherwise balanced. Best if you like surprises over comfort.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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About This Book
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.
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- Author
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Published
- 1853
- Pages
- 776
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