William Makepeace Thackeray, Edmond O'Brien, Saland Publishing
The History of Henry Esmond
Audiobook
(Saland Publishing May 18, 2010)
, Abridged
The History of Henry Esmond tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. A typical example of Victorian historical novels, Thackeray's work of historical fiction tells its tale against the backdrop of late 17th- and early 18th-century England — specifically, major events surrounding the English Restoration — and utilizes characters both real (but dramatized) and imagined.