Book
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne
by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Published
- 1852
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Pages
- 464
- Words
- 194005
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36768786-the-history-of-henry-esmond-esq-a-colonel-in-the-service-of-her-majes?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_86
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–17
- Ambleside year
- Year 9 onwards · ages 14–17
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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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EnglandFamily LifeHistoryMemoirOrphanWar