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The History of Henry Esmond

By: William Makepeace Thackeray
Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
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Set in the reign of Queen Anne, Thackeray's novel follows the troubled progress of Henry Esmond Esq, a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army. Enamoured of the Jacobite Lady Castlewood and her wayward daughter Beatrix, he distinguishes himself in Marlborough's campaigns against Louis XIV but comes to grief in an ingenious but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to depose George I in favour of the Old Pretender.

He continues to wrestle with an emotional allegiance to the Old Tory-Catholic England until, disillusioned, he comes eventually to terms with the whiggish-Protestant future.

Public Domain (P)2003 Isis Publishing Ltd
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An epic tale of the events after the glorious revolution... gives a vivid colorful face to history. Reader was elegant and clear.

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