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The Newcomes Volume 1: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family Audiobook

By: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Read By: Eloise Fairfax Publisher: Interactive Media World Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 11.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 8.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2025 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781802569230
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Total Audiobook Chapters:

53

Longest Chapter Length:

21:00 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

16:45 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

19:52 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

28
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The Newcomes chronicles the fortunes and misfortunes of a genteel English family, centering on Colonel Newcome—a man of unwavering honor—and his idealistic son Clive. Through Clive’s artistic ambitions, romantic entanglements, and moral trials, Thackeray explores themes of integrity, social class, and the tension between principle and pragmatism in Victorian society. With warmth and irony, the novel contrasts true virtue against worldly ambition, offering a rich, panoramic portrait of 19th-century life and the quiet heroism of decency amid moral compromise.

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About William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) was born and educated to be a gentleman but gambled away much of his fortune while at Cambridge. He trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. He was a regular contributor to periodicals and magazines and Vanity Fair was serialised in Punch in 1847–8.