This story follows the troubled progress of an officer in Marlborough's army as he wrestles with an emotional allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic England. His disillusionment and the switch of affections entailed in his resignation to the new regime proved unsettling to Thackeray's readers.
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This story follows the troubled progress of an officer in Marlborough's army as he wrestles with an emotional allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic England. His disillusionment and the switch of affections entailed in his resignation to the new regime proved unsettling to Thackeray's readers.
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New York. 1964. November 1964. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451502477. Afterword By Walter Allen. 480 pages. paperback. CP247. Cover: James Hill. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback England Literature 19th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER-He is a Hamlet, but a Hamlet who acts, even though he constantly doubts the wisdom of his actions. It is through this painfully complex mind that we see the tangled politics, the clash of faiths and loyalties, the mixture of self-seeking ambition and disinterestedness, that characterize the last decades of the seventeenth century and the first of the, eighteenth. ' Thus Walter Allen writes of Henry Esmond, whose struggle to overcome the stigma of illegitimate birth and the anguish of a hopeless love forms the central strand in this masterfully woven historical novel. Both an unsurpassed evocation of an age and a deeply moving portrayal of individual destiny, the book is superb in its delicate cadences and rich visual detail. It stands as Thackeray's greatest achievement in psychological portraiture, often prophetic in its insight, and is rivaled only by Vanity Fair as the highest expression of the author's extraordinary narrative art. As Thackeray's eminent contemporary George Saintsbury wrote: 'A greater novel than Henry Esmond I do not know; and I do not know many greater books. ' inventory #29289.
