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The History of Henry Esmond [antikvár]
William Makepeace Thackeray
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
" Here is the best I can do. . . . I stand by this book, and am willing to leave it where I go, as my card." Such were the words which Thackeray himself used about the book which is familiarly known as Esmond, but the full title of which runs The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne. Written by Himself. Upwards of half a century has gone by since the story was first published— printed, in three volumes, in Queen Anne style—and in that period the author's most optimistic...
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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
" Here is the best I can do. . . . I stand by this book, and am willing to leave it where I go, as my card." Such were the words which Thackeray himself used about the book which is familiarly known as Esmond, but the full title of which runs The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne. Written by Himself. Upwards of half a century has gone by since the story was first published— printed, in three volumes, in Queen Anne style—and in that period the author's most optimistic estimate of the work has been endorsed by many critics.
This novel stands in a measure somewhat apart írom the ranks of ordinary historical fiction, owing to the fact that it is not only a story about the past, but in that it is a story about the past successfully cast in autobiograplaical form. The author, in other words, is not telling a tale about bygone days and people, but he is setting it forth as the narrative of a man who has lived in those bygone days, and is one of those bygone people. Its success is, of course, all the more remarkable. The author had so thoroughly steeped himself in the very atmosphere—so far as such can be recovered from the written word—that he was able to make it a part of his book without any sense of artificiality. In the elaborate title, and in the dedicatory letter, the period of Queen Anne is first suggested, and tiu-oughout the book the local colour— to apply that term to time as well as to place—is rendered with peculiar nicety. Too often the writer who seeks to write as though his pen was guided by a brain that thought in tlx3 past is contented with expressing himself more or less m language borrowed from that time, in using archaisms m spelling and in phraseology, but Thackeray had so imbued himself with the thought of the time when he was preparing his Lectures on the Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, that he was able to write in what has been termed an " essentially false style " without the slightest air of affectation.
The extent to which Thackeray set himself to reproduce the diction of the time of which he wrote has been both « 73 • ix
PREFACE
THE ESMONDS OF VIRGINIA
The estate of Castlewood, in Virginia, which was given to our ancestors by King Charles the First, as some return for the sacrifices made in His Majesty's cause by the Esmond family, ücs in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannoc, and was once as great as an English Principality, though in the early times its revenues were but small. Indeed, for near eighty years after our forefathers possessed them, our plantations were in the hands of factors, who enriched themselves one after another, though a few scores of hogsheads of tobacco were all the produce that, for long after the Restoration, our family received from their Virginian estates.
My dear and honoured father, Colonel Henry Esmond, whose history, written by himself, is contained in the accompanying volumes, came to Virginia in the year 1718, built his house of Castlewood, and here permanently settled. After a long stormy life in England, he passed tiie remainder of his naany years in peace and honour in this country; how beloved and respected by all his fellow-citizens, how inexprei^ibly dear to his family, I need not say. His whole life was a benefit to all who were connected with him. He gave the best example, the best advice, the most bounteous hospitality to his friends; the tenderest care to his dependants; ajad bestowed on those of his immediate family such a blessing of fatherly love and protection as can never be thought of, by us, at least, without veneration and thankfulne."^; and my son's chüdren, whether established here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother country, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be descended from one who in aU ways was so truly noble.
My dear mother died in 1736, soon after our return from England, whither my parents took me for my education; and where I made the acquaintance of Mr. Warrington, whom my children never saw. When it plea-sed Heaven, in the bloom of his youth, and after but a few months of a most happy union, to retTiove him from me, I oweTermékadatok
Cím: The History of Henry Esmond [antikvár]
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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