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Blurb: “A nineteenth-century masterpiece, this full-scale novel of Queen Anne's England is widely regarded as Thackeray's most perfect work. In it, he recreates a golden age, a classic battle, and the passionate love of a man struggling against the curse of illegitimacy.
With an introduction by Lionel Stevenson”
Deep in despair over his wife's descent into madness, fraught with anxiety and guilt over his love for a minister's wife and fearful of having lost his creative powers, Thackeray plunged into the writing of HENRY ESMOND with a passion.
Having long admired the eighteenth century for its simple social order and the greatness of its leading figures, he sought to recreate that age and to place in it a man, a true gentleman, who might enjoy, in fiction, the kind of life he longed to live himself.
He so perfectly projected himself into. the past that HENRY ESMOND breathes,, moves and bleeds, becoming the very epitome of the realistic fictional re-creation of history.“