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Loading... The History of Henry Esmond (Classics Club)by William Makepeace Thackeray
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The first half of the book was very good, but the second half was disappointing. The romance shifting from a 10 year infatuation for the daughter to the mother was most disturbing and unsatisfying. I had intended to read the sequel, the Virginians, but now I am not so sure. The history was rather complex and required a lot of ancillary reading in order to understand all the Jameses, pretenders, Georges, Annes, etc. Each had several different monikers. However, learning that was a positive aspect of the book. (  ) lindawwilson | Mar 18, 2009 |  See other edition (  ) antiquary | Dec 19, 2008 | I read this as a romantic teenager and loved it, sympathizing with the sufferings of the young hero. However like other readers I found his marriage to the mother of the woman he had vainly loved a bit shocking. ( ) antiquary | Dec 18, 2008 | This is a wonderful book by Thackery of the 19th century England period jnajack | Oct 1, 2008 | 1  gwyneira | Nov 29, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0140430490, Paperback)Published in 1853, William Thackeray's novel is set in the reign of Queen Anne and follows the troubled progress of a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army as he wrestles with his allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic England until, disillusioned, he comes to terms of a kind with the Whiggish-Protestant future.Orphaned in the England of the later Stuarts, Henry Esmond is raised by his aristocratic, Jacobite relatives the Castlewoods. As a young man he falls in love with both Lady Castlewood and Beatrix, her beautiful, headstrong daughter, and is inspired to join the ultimately unsuccessful campaign to reinstate James Stuart to the throne. The book is written in the form of memoirs of Henry Esmond who was an settler of Virginia in the early 1700's. Thackeray valued Henry Esmond more than any of his other novels and it displays many of his own memories and emotions. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:17 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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