William Makepeace Thackeray

The History of Henry Esmond illustrated William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. His fame rests chiefly on the novels Vanity Fair (1847-48), a panoramic survey of English manners and human frailties set in the Napoleonic era, and Henry Esmond (1852), set in the early 18th century. "The History of Henry Esmond" is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in 1852.