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The Newcomes

(Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq.)

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Author(s):William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):Edward Ardizzone
Publisher(s): The Heritage Press
Limited Editions Club
Year Published: 1954
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
British
Families
Fiction - Novel
Historical Fiction - Civil War
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 761
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 731214797

Description

A vast novel of the Victorian era that centers on Colonel Thomas Newcombe, his son Clive and their relations and friends. The Limited Editions Club version is in two volumes.

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Other Editions

The Newcomes (1854)

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