The History of Henry Esmond

Name: The History of Henry Esmond
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Historical novel set in eighteenth-century England with romantic elements

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William Makepeace Thackeray

Thackeray was Dickens's great rival and the supreme Victorian ironist, whose Vanity Fair anatomises social climbing and moral hypocrisy with unsparing wit. His satire of the privileged classes remains sharper and more unsentimental than anything in Dickens.

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