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`Henry Esmond' splendid proof of Thackeray's genius.(Books)(The Lost Word)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960714
Author:West, Woody

"Henry Esmond" was one of William Makepeace Thackeray's most acclaimed novels, next only perhaps to "Vanity Fair," and one for which he shared the pinnacle of mid-Victorian fiction with Charles Dickens.

In this century, however, Dickens, along with Anthony Trollope and George Eliot, is cherished by readers - and, more to the point, is read by them - while Thackeray seems to have gotten misplaced. Although Trollope in his day was referred to as the "lesser Thackeray," the characterization now might be reversed.

It is worth the time to make Thackeray's acquaintance (or ...

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