Download or read book The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family" by William Makepeace Thackeray tells the story of Colonel Thomas Newcome, a virtuous and upstanding character. It is equally the story of Colonel Newcome's son, Clive, who studies and travels for the purpose of becoming a painter, although the profession is frowned on by some of his relatives and acquaintances—notably Clive's snobbish, backstabbing cousin Barnes Newcome. Colonel Newcome goes out to India for decades, then returns to England where Clive meets his cousin Ethel. After years in England, the colonel returns to India for another several years and while he is there, Clive travels Europe and his love for Ethel waxes and wanes. Dozens of background characters appear, fade, and reappear.