THE ATHENAEUMHenry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four GeorgesWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
Biography
Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textThackeray gave his lectures on the English humourists of the eighteenth century in London in 1851, and began with Swift, of whom he drew an admiring and unforgiving portrait. This volume binds the lectures with Henry Esmond and with The Four Georges. Henry Esmond, his novel of Queen Anne’s reign, came out the year after the lectures.
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- Reading time
- About 22 hr 15 min
- Where to find it
- Brobdingnag
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #29363. In the public domain in the United States.