The Newcomes

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The Newcomes is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1855. It is considered by many to be Thackeray's masterpiece, and one of the finest English novels ever written.

Here is the story of Colonel Thomas Newcome, a virtuous and upstanding character who was often referred to by people at the turn of the 20th Century. For example, in his autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt described his uncle, James Dunwoody Bulloch, as "a veritable Colonel Newcome".^[1]

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• The Newcomes, available at Project Gutenberg.

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