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Chapter 1: The Overture - After which the Curtain rises upon a Drinking Chorus
36:01 -
Chapter 2: Colonel Newcome's Wild Oats
42:10 -
Chapter 3: Colonel Newcome's Letter-box
24:48 -
Chapter 4: In which the Author and the Hero resume their Acquaintance
23:10 -
Chapter 5: Clive's Uncles
46:55 -
Chapter 6: Newcome Brothers
28:02 -
Chapter 7: In which Mr. Clive's School-days are over
23:00 -
Chapter 8: Mrs. Newcome at Home (a Small Early Party)
46:23 -
Chapter 9: Miss Honeyman's
43:14 -
Chapter 10: Ethel and her Relations
25:41 -
Chapter 11: At Mrs. Ridley's
33:11 -
Chapter 12: In which everybody is asked to Dinner
20:33 -
Chapter 13: In which Thomas Newcome sings his Last Song
21:05 -
Chapter 14: Park Lane
32:57 -
Chapter 15: The Old Ladies
29:04 -
Chapter 16: In which Mr. Sherrick lets his House in Fitzroy Square
17:02 -
Chapter 17: A School of Art
26:03 -
Chapter 18: New Companions
14:57 -
Chapter 19: The Colonel at Home
22:18 -
Chapter 20: Contains more Particulars of the Colonel and his Brethren
22:24 -
Chapter 21: Is Sentimental, but Short
26:56 -
Chapter 22: Describes a Visit to Paris; with Accidents and Incidents
42:53 -
Chapter 23: In which we hear a Soprano and a Contralto
41:21 -
Chapter 24: In which the Newcome Brothers once more meet together in Unity
38:54 -
Chapter 25: Is passed in a Public-house
35:36 -
Chapter 26: In which Colonel Newcome's Horses are sold
31:58 -
Chapter 27: Youth and Sunshine
28:38 -
Chapter 28: In which Clive begins to see the World
61:22 -
Chapter 29: In which Barnes comes a-wooing
27:03 -
Chapter 30: A Retreat
44:21 -
Chapter 31: Madame la Duchesse
38:37 -
Chapter 32: Barnes's Courtship
25:25 -
Chapter 33: Lady Kew at the Congress
29:51 -
Chapter 34: The End of the Congress of Baden
55:36 -
Chapter 35: Across the Alps
23:17 -
Chapter 36: In which M. de Florac is promoted
37:45 -
Chapter 37: Return to Lord Kew
21:52 -
Chapter 38: In which Lady Kew leaves his Lordship quite convalescent
35:49 -
Chapter 39: Amongst the Painters
40:03 -
Chapter 40: Returns from Rome to Pall Mall
26:53 -
Chapter 41: An Old Story
41:57 -
Chapter 42: Injured Innocence
38:51 -
Chapter 43: Returns to some Old Friends
32:26 -
Chapter 44: In which Mr. Charles Honeyman appears in an Amiable Light
39:40 -
Chapter 45: A Stag of Ten
22:27 -
Chapter 46: The Hotel de Florac
33:17 -
Chapter 47: Contains two or three Acts of a Little Comedy
55:00 -
Chapter 48: In which Benedick is a Married Man
30:24 -
Chapter 49: Contains at least six more Courses and two Desserts
26:11 -
Chapter 50: Clive in New Quarters
22:04 -
Chapter 51: An Old Friend
26:01 -
Chapter 52: Family Secrets
32:34 -
Chapter 53: In which Kinsmen fall out
53:57 -
Chapter 54: Has a Tragical Ending
20:16 -
Chapter 55: Barnes's Skeleton Closet
29:16 -
Chapter 56: Rosa quo locorum sera moratur
22:12 -
Chapter 57: Rosebury and Newcome
55:30 -
Chapter 58: “One more Unfortunate”
21:02 -
Chapter 59: In which Achilles loses Briseis
60:42 -
Chapter 60: In which we write to the Colonel
10:43 -
Chapter 61: In which we are introduced to a New Newcome
16:00 -
Chapter 62: Mr. and Mrs. Clive Newcome
26:17 -
Chapter 63: Mrs. Clive at Home
27:54 -
Chapter 64: Absit Omen
18:03 -
Chapter 65: In which Mrs. Clive comes into her Fortune
35:10 -
Chapter 66: In which the Colonel and the Newcome Athenaeum are both lectured
29:29 -
Chapter 67: Newcome and Liberty
22:57 -
Chapter 68: A Letter and a Reconciliation
18:08 -
Chapter 69: The Election
36:11 -
Chapter 70: Chiltern Hundreds
21:49 -
Chapter 71: In which Mrs. Clive Newcome's Carriage is ordered
32:30 -
Chapter 72: Belisarius
21:42 -
Chapter 73: In which Belisarius returns from Exile
26:32 -
Chapter 74: In which Clive begins the World
28:21 -
Chapter 75: Founder's Day at the Grey Friars
32:55 -
Chapter 76: Christmas at Rosebury
23:32 -
Chapter 77: The Shortest and Happiest in the Whole History
5:54 -
Chapter 78: In which the Author goes on a Pleasant Errand
23:58 -
Chapter 79: In which Old Friends come together
35:26 -
Chapter 80: In which the Colonel says “Adsum” when his Name is called
32:02
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Family respectability comes under scrutiny in William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of English relatives, social ambition and private loyalties. The opening uses a quarrelsome company of fable animals to expose vanity, flattery and disguise, setting a satirical tone for the human story. Colonel Newcome, Clive and their extended family inhabit a world of dinners, courtship, money and competing expectations.
Ethel's dispute with Lady Kew makes these pressures personal. She describes the humiliation of being offered to prospective husbands and asks to remain with her father, whose newspaper she reads at breakfast. Alongside these domestic pressures, Clive's life among art students in Rome brings work, friendship and pleasure in his surroundings. Published in 1854, this broad family novel rewards readers interested in how affectionate ties become entangled with rank, and how social comedy can make room for personal hurt.
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