| Front | The History of Henry Esmond |
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| Back | A Novel W. M. Thackeray 1852 Henry Esmond who tells the story of his life in a predominantly third person narrative mode War of the Spanish Succession This Nov is considred the finest Victorian Historical Novel The History of Henry Esmond is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in 1852. The book tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. A typical example of Victorian historical novels, Thackeray's work of historical fiction tells its tale against the backdrop of late 17th- and early 18th-century England – specifically, major events surrounding the English Restoration — and utilises characters both real (but dramatised) and imagined. It weaves its central character into a number of events such as the Glorious Revolution, the War of the Spanish Succession, the Hamilton–Mohun Duel and the Hanoverian Succession. |
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