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Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges

by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.
  3. 3Dedication
  4. 4Preface. The Esmonds of Virginia
  5. 5Book I — The Early Youth of Henry Esmond, Up to the Time of His Lea…
  6. 6Chapter I — An Account of the Family of Esmond of Castlewood Hall
  7. 7Chapter II — Relates How Francis, Fourth Viscount, Arrives at Castl…
  8. 8Chapter III — Whither in the Time of Thomas, Third Viscount, I Had…
  9. 9Chapter IV — I Am Placed Under A Popish Priest and Bred to That Rel…
  10. 10Chapter V — My Superiors Are Engaged in Plots for the Restoration o…
  11. 11Chapter VI — The Issue of the Plots — The Death of Thomas, Third Vi…
  12. 12Chapter VII — I Am Left at Castlewood an Orphan, and Find Most Kind…
  13. 13Chapter VIII — After Good Fortune Comes Evil
  14. 14Chapter IX — I Have the Small-Pox, and Prepare to Leave Castlewood
  15. 15Chapter X — I Go to Cambridge, and Do but Little Good There
  16. 16Chapter XI — I Come Home for a Holiday to Castlewood, and Find A Sk…
  17. 17Chapter XII — My Lord Mohun Comes Among Us for No Good
  18. 18Chapter XIII — My Lord Leaves Us and His Evil Behind Him
  19. 19Chapter XIV — We Ride After Him to London
  20. 20Book II | Contains Mr. Esmond’s Military Life, and Other Matters Ap…
  21. 21Chapter II — I Come to the End of My Captivity, but Not of My Trouble
  22. 22Chapter III — I Take the Queen’s Pay in Quin’s Regiment
  23. 23Chapter IV — Recapitulations
  24. 24Chapter V — I Go on the Vigo Bay Expedition, Taste Salt Water and S…
  25. 25Chapter VI — The 29th December
  26. 26Chapter VII — I Am Made Welcome at Walcote
  27. 27Chapter VIII — Family Talk
  28. 28Chapter IX — I Make the Campaign of 1704
  29. 29Chapter X — An Old Story About A Fool and a Woman
  30. 30Chapter XI — The Famous Mr. Joseph Addison
  31. 31Chapter XII — I Get A Company in the Campaign of 1706
  32. 32Chapter XIII — I Meet an Old Acquaintance in Flanders, and Find My…
  33. 33Chapter XIV — The Campaign of 1707, 1708
  34. 34Chapter XV — General Webb Wins the Battle of Wynendael
  35. 35Book III | Containing the End of Mr. Esmond’s Adventures in England
  36. 36Chapter II — I Go Home, and Harp on the Old String
  37. 37Chapter III — A Paper Out of the “Spectator”
  38. 38Chapter IV — Beatrix’s New Suitor
  39. 39Chapter V — Mohun Appears for the Last Time in This History
  40. 40Chapter VI — Poor Beatrix
  41. 41Chapter VII — I Visit Castlewood Once More
  42. 42Chapter VIII — I Travel to France and Bring Home A Portrait of Rigaud
  43. 43Chapter IX — The Original of the Portrait Comes to England
  44. 44Chapter X — We Entertain A Very Distinguished Guest at Kensington
  45. 45Chapter XI — Our Guest Quits Us as Not Being Hospitable Enough
  46. 46Chapter XII — A Great Scheme, and Who Balked It
  47. 47Chapter XIII — August 1st, 1714
  48. 48Appendix
  49. 49The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century
  50. 50Lecture the First — Swift
  51. 51Lecture the Second — Congreve and Addison
  52. 52Lecture the Third — Steele
  53. 53Lecture the Fourth — Prior, Gay, and Pope
  54. 54Lecture the Fifth — Hogarth, Smollett, and Fielding
  55. 55Lecture the Sixth — Sterne and Goldsmith
  56. 56The Georges — The Poems
  57. 57Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court and Town Life — George the First
  58. 58George the Second
  59. 59George the Third
  60. 60George the Fourth

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