Publisher's Synopsis
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.
