Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
by
William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
The Newcomes is among the most richly allusive novels in English. Thackeray shows himself to be worthy of comparison with Dickens, Balzac, and Zola in the evocation of a great city's complex cultural life. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and political and economic development,...