#TheNewcomes
The Newcomes
The Newcomes is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1855.
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it's the sort of thing you'll like
I didn't enjoy this as much as Thackeray's Vanity Fair, and I can understand why it's not read too much today (despite being very popular until about 100 years ago). While there are moments of both sly humor and true pathos to pull you in, it's not the kind of story that transcends its time. For example, one of the main characters, Clive, is just an emo, wanna-be artist who doesn't do much but travel around, have fun and moon over his cousin. It's hard to feel much sympathy for a guy like this, but you know that contemporary readers would likely have found him charming and sympathetic, especially when his fortune is wiped out about 125 pages before the story ends.
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