'What spectacle is more august than that of a great king in exile?
Who is more worthy of respect than a brave man in misfortune?' When
"Henry Esmond" appeared in 1852, noted writers and critics of the
time acclaimed it as the best historical novel ever written. Set in
the reign of Queen Anne, the story follows the troubled progress of
a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army, as he painfully
wrestles with an emotional allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic
England until, disillusioned, he comes to terms of a kind with the
Whiggish-Protestant future. This change also entails a very
uncomfortable switch in his affections. The love story of Henry
Esmond is charged with sombre, unconscious emotions, yet is
skilfully embedded into historical events which are convincing but
never too prominent.
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