One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

The Newcomes

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Newcomes

By WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Condensation by CHARLES K. BOLTON COL. THOMAS NEWCOME, the hero of Argom, and of Bhartpour, had loved the…

The Newcomes: Newcome

At last the happy time came for which the colonel had been longing, and he took leave of his regiment. In England, he had in his family…

The Newcomes: Ethel

Barnes Newcome, too, was at Baden, for he was to marry pretty little Lady Clara Pulleyn, free at last from that undesirable Jack Belsize…

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