{"product_id":"2940013676503","title":"THE NEWCOMES (A RESPECTABLE FAMILY)","description":"THE NEWCOMES......\"MEMOIRS OF A MOST RESPECTABLE FAMILY\". THACKERAY HAD OVER NIGHT SUCCESS WITH \"VANITY FAIR\"...BUT BY THE TIME HE WRITES THIS NOVEL HE HAS MELLOWED SOME AND INSTEAD OF BITING SATIRE, HE BRINGS A NUANCED UNDERSTANDING OF HUMANITY. 990 PAGES IN PRINT!  A GREAT BOOK!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• This volume includes a “Detailed Biography” of our author, William Makepeace Thackeray.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe great subject of this novel is the Victorian marriage market, where girls and young women are brought out to great fanfare into the world and pressured to marry not for love but for rank, money and prestige. The main character is Colonel Newcome, a man of simple but pure morals and manner, some money, a little prestige, but not a great man according to the standards of the wider world. His fondest wish is to see his beloved only son, Clive, marry his cousin, the lovely and rather feisty Ethel Newcome. Only Ethel's father is a wealthy baronet, and Ethel's beauty and wit rank her as one of the great beauties of fashionable London. She is taken under the wing of her grandmother, the old Lady Kew, who makes it her goal in life to see Ethel married off to the richest and highest ranking noble she can catch. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat place does love have in a marriage arranged by societal values and parental approval? How truly important is it? There are a number of marriages in the book besides Ethel's that allows Thackeray to carry out his point of how important it is to marry for love and compatibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking for another good book?  Just enter the name \"TLC BOOKS, Edited\" at the search box and you will be taken to our main page, where you will be able to peruse all our titles…many are Christian and Wholesome novels.","brand":"TLC BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182171472112,"sku":"2940013676503","price":1.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013676503_p0.jpg?v=1763583831","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013676503","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}