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The Newcomes

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The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The Book Of Snobs. It tells the story of a few generations of the Newcome family: their rise to respectability, marriages, love, and the culture in which they lived. The novel teaches the reader what it was like to live in Victorian England - Summary by Stav Nisser (41 hr 34 min)

Chapters

Chapter 1: The Overture—After which the Curtain rises upon a Drinking Chorus

36:01

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Chapter 2: Colonel Newcome's Wild Oats

42:10

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Chapter 3: Colonel Newcome's Letter-box

24:48

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Chapter 4: In which the Author and the Hero resume their Acquaintance

23:10

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Chapter 5: Clive's Uncles

46:55

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Chapter 6: Newcome Brothers

28:02

Read by Matea Bracic

Chapter 7: In which Mr. Clive's School-days are over

23:00

Read by Ariphron

Chapter 8: Mrs. Newcome at Home (a Small Early Party)

46:23

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Chapter 9: Miss Honeyman's

43:14

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Chapter 10: Ethel and her Relations

25:41

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Chapter 11: At Mrs. Ridley's

33:11

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Chapter 12: In which everybody is asked to Dinner

20:33

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Chapter 13: In which Thomas Newcome sings his Last Song

21:05

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Chapter 14: Park Lane

32:57

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Chapter 15: The Old Ladies

29:04

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Chapter 16: In which Mr. Sherrick lets his House in Fitzroy Square

17:02

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Chapter 17: A School of Art

26:03

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Chapter 18: New Companions

14:57

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Chapter 19: The Colonel at Home

22:18

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Chapter 20: Contains more Particulars of the Colonel and his Brethren

22:24

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Chapter 21: Is Sentimental, but Short

26:56

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Chapter 22: Describes a Visit to Paris; with Accidents and Incidents

42:53

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Chapter 23: In which we hear a Soprano and a Contralto

41:21

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Chapter 24: In which the Newcome Brothers once more meet together in Unity

38:54

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Chapter 25: Is passed in a Public-house

35:36

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Chapter 26: In which Colonel Newcome's Horses are sold

31:58

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Chapter 27: Youth and Sunshine

28:38

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Chapter 28: In which Clive begins to see the World

1:01:22

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Chapter 29: In which Barnes comes a-wooing

27:03

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Chapter 30: A Retreat

44:21

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Chapter 31: Madame la Duchesse

38:37

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Chapter 32: Barnes's Courtship

25:25

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Chapter 33: Lady Kew at the Congress

29:51

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Chapter 34: The End of the Congress of Baden

55:36

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Chapter 35: Across the Alps

23:17

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Chapter 36: In which M. de Florac is promoted

37:45

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Chapter 37: Return to Lord Kew

21:52

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Chapter 38: In which Lady Kew leaves his Lordship quite convalescent

35:49

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Chapter 39: Amongst the Painters

40:03

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Chapter 40: Returns from Rome to Pall Mall

26:53

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Chapter 41: An Old Story

41:57

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Chapter 42: Injured Innocence

38:51

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Chapter 43: Returns to some Old Friends

32:26

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Chapter 44: In which Mr. Charles Honeyman appears in an Amiable Light

39:40

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Chapter 45: A Stag of Ten

22:27

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Chapter 46: The Hotel de Florac

33:17

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Chapter 47: Contains two or three Acts of a Little Comedy

55:00

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Chapter 48: In which Benedick is a Married Man

30:24

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Chapter 49: Contains at least six more Courses and two Desserts

26:11

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Chapter 50: Clive in New Quarters

22:04

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Chapter 51: An Old Friend

26:01

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Chapter 52: Family Secrets

32:34

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Chapter 53: In which Kinsmen fall out

53:57

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Chapter 54: Has a Tragical Ending

20:16

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Chapter 55: Barnes's Skeleton Closet

29:16

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Chapter 56: Rosa quo locorum sera moratur

22:12

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Chapter 57: Rosebury and Newcome

55:30

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Chapter 58: “One more Unfortunate”

21:02

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Chapter 59: In which Achilles loses Briseis

1:00:42

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Chapter 60: In which we write to the Colonel

10:43

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Chapter 61: In which we are introduced to a New Newcome

16:00

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Chapter 62: Mr. and Mrs. Clive Newcome

26:17

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Chapter 63: Mrs. Clive at Home

27:54

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Chapter 64: Absit Omen

18:03

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Chapter 65: In which Mrs. Clive comes into her Fortune

35:10

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Chapter 66: In which the Colonel and the Newcome Athenaeum are both lectured

29:29

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Chapter 67: Newcome and Liberty

22:57

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Chapter 68: A Letter and a Reconciliation

18:08

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Chapter 69: The Election

36:11

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Chapter 70: Chiltern Hundreds

21:49

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Chapter 71: In which Mrs. Clive Newcome's Carriage is ordered

32:30

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Chapter 72: Belisarius

21:42

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Chapter 73: In which Belisarius returns from Exile

26:32

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Chapter 74: In which Clive begins the World

28:21

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Chapter 75: Founder's Day at the Grey Friars

32:55

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Chapter 76: Christmas at Rosebury

23:32

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Chapter 77: The Shortest and Happiest in the Whole History

5:54

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Chapter 78: In which the Author goes on a Pleasant Errand

23:58

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Chapter 79: In which Old Friends come together

35:26

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Chapter 80: In which the Colonel says “Adsum” when his Name is called

32:02

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