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Recent News. William Makepeace Thackeray (born July 18, 1811, Calcutta, India—died Dec. 24, 1863, London, Eng.) was an English novelist whose reputation rests chiefly on Vanity Fair (1847–48), a novel of the Napoleonic period in England, and The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (1852), set in the early 18th century.
5 de set. de 1991 · The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (The ^AWorld's Classics) Paperback – September 5, 1991. by William Makepeace Thackeray (Author), Donald Hawes (Editor) Orphaned in the England of the later Stuarts, Henry Esmonde is raised by his aristocratic, Jacobite relatives the Castlewoods. As a young man he falls in love with both Lady Castlewood and ...
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Summary. The History of Henry Esmond, Esquire, a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne, is the book that Thackeray considered to be his best piece of writing. Set in the late seventeenth ...
L'Histoire de Henry Esmond (titre complet : L'Histoire du sieur Henry Esmond, colonel au service de Sa Majesté la reine Anne, écrite par lui-même) est un roman de William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) composé de 1851 à 1852, c'est-à-dire dans la période de maturité de l'auteur et publié la veille de son départ pour l'Amérique, à l'automne de 1852.
21 de set. de 2011 · The history of Henry Esmond, Esq. by Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863; Hawes, Donald. Publication date 1991 Topics
The History of Henry Esmond was widely considered the best historical novel of its day and often considered the best of Thackeray's novels as well; Trollope, who wrote a biography of his friend Thackeray, calls it his masterpiece.
Publisher Description. The book tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. Story opens on Henry as a boy – the supposedly illegitimate (and eventually orphaned) son of Thomas, the third Viscount Castlewood, and cousin of the Jacobite fourth viscount, Francis, and his wife, the Lady ...
