Research Catalog

Title

The history of Henry Esmond, esq. / by W. M. Thackeray ...

Author

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

Publication

London : J. M. Dent & co.; New York : E. P. Dutton & co., 1909.

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Details

Description

xxix, 601, [1] p.; 18 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Everyman's library ; [no. 73] Fiction

Uniform Title

• History of Henry Esmond
• Everyman's library no. 73.
• Everyman's library. Fiction

Alternative Title

History of Henry Esmond

Subject

• 1702-1714
• English fiction > 19th century
• Great Britain > History > Anne, 1702-1714 > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fictional Work
• Fiction
• History
• Romans.

Note

• First edition of this issue, 1906.
• "List of the published writings of W. M. Thackeray": p. xx.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

LCCN

w^^10000200^

OCLC

• 3411657
• SCSB-11495265

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library