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The History of Henry Esmond
Capítulos (45)
- Dedication 0:00
- Preface 0:49
- Book I: The Early Youth of Henry Esmond, Up to the Time of His Leaving Trinity College, in Cambridge 14:48
- I: An Account of the Family of Esmond of Castlewood Hall 23:36
- II: Relates How Francis, Fourth Viscount, Arrives at Castlewood 36:52
- III: Whither in the Time of Thomas, Third Viscount, I Had Preceded Him as Page to Isabella 56:30
- IV: I Am Placed Under a Popish Priest and Bred to That Religion—Viscountess Castlewood 1:24:21
- V: My Superiors Are Engaged in Plots for the Restoration of King James II 1:40:45
- VI: The Issue of the Plots—The Death of Thomas, Third Viscount of Castlewood; and the Imprisonment of His Viscountess 2:08:39
- VII: I Am Left at Castlewood an Orphan, and Find Most Kind Protectors There 2:44:12
- VIII: After Good Fortune Comes Evil 3:05:47
- IX: I Have the Smallpox, and Prepare to Leave Castlewood 3:28:51
- X: I Go to Cambridge, and Do but Little Good There 4:19:24
- XI: I Come Home for a Holiday to Castlewood, and Find a Skeleton in the House 4:37:36
- XII: My Lord Mohun Comes Among Us for No Good 5:10:42
- XIII: My Lord Leaves Us and His Evil Behind Him 5:35:59
- XIV: We Ride After Him to London 6:09:14
- Book II: Contains Mr. Esmond’s Military Life, and Other Matters Appertaining to the Esmond Family: I: I Am in Prison, and Visited, but Not Consoled There 6:49:10
- II: I Come to the End of My Captivity, but Not of My Trouble 7:15:10
- III: I Take the Queen’s Pay in Quin’s Regiment 7:39:05
- IV: Recapitulations 8:03:44
- V: I Go on the Vigo Bay Expedition, Taste Saltwater and Smell Powder 8:19:30
- VI: The 29th December 8:48:24
- VII: I Am Made Welcome at Walcote 9:08:08
- VIII: Family Talk 9:33:34
- IX: I Make the Campaign of 1704 9:51:55
- X: An Old Story About a Fool and a Woman 10:16:12
- XI: The Famous Mr. Joseph Addison 10:40:12
- XII: I Get a Company in the Campaign of 1706 11:09:22
- XIII: I Meet an Old Acquaintance in Flanders, and Find My Mother’s Grave and My Own Cradle There 11:22:42
- XIV: The Campaign of 1707, 1708 11:55:19
- XV: General Webb Wins the Battle of Wynendael 12:14:43
- Book III: Containing the End of Mr. Esmond’s Adventures in England: I: I Come to an End of My Battles and Bruises 13:19:59
- II: I Go Home, and Harp on the Old String 13:55:12
- III: A Paper Out of the Spectator 14:32:18
- IV: Beatrix’s New Suitor 15:23:45
- V: Mohun Appears for the Last Time in This History 15:50:55
- VI: Poor Beatrix 16:26:03
- VII: I Visit Castlewood Once More 16:41:04
- VIII: I Travel to France and Bring Home a Portrait of Rigaud 17:09:42
- IX: The Original of the Portrait Comes to England 17:35:08
- X: We Entertain a Very Distinguished Guest at Kensington 18:10:16
- XI: Our Guest Quits Us as Not Being Hospitable Enough 18:46:14
- XII: A Great Scheme, and Who Balked It 19:11:13
- XIII: August 1st, 1714 19:24:46
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Henry Esmond is the modest but appealing hero of his own story. Set, for the most part, in the early years of the eighteenth century, Esmond is regarded as a bastard member of his noble family. He gains some ability in arms, exercises his capable brain, and finds that the tumultuous events of those years give him ample opportunity to make his way as a military man. But as political intrigues and love interests come in to play, Esmond discovers there is more to his past than his present circumstances would suggest.
The History of Henry Esmond had a mixed reception. George Eliot was put off by it, finding aspects of the plot “uncomfortable.” Anthony Trollope, on the other hand, admired the work and thought it “the greatest novel in the language”—as, indeed, did Mrs. Trollope, who so wore out her copy with repeated re-readings that it needed to be replaced.
Modern assessments recognize Thackeray’s fine technical achievement in the effective first-person voice, and his deft handling of the complex plot which, in the words of one modern literary critic, “won Henry Esmond the fame of Thackeray’s best executed work.”