Published in 1852, Thackeray's novel is set in the reign of Queen Anne and follows the troubled progress of a gentleman and 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.
Hailed by its contemporaries as the greatest historical novel ever written, "The History of Henry Esmond" maintains a compelling synthesis of political and emotional tension.
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