The Virginians, by William Makepeace Thackeray
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This volume is a facsimile reprint of the Household Edition of 1878 and features the author's own illustrations
The Virginians, by William Makepeace Thackeray- Amazon Sales Rank: #3930502 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-19
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .94" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 374 pages
About the Author William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The Virginians -When the Old and New Worlds find each other troubling By Greg Deane William Makepeace Thackeray's novel, The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century, was first published in a single volume in 1859. A number of characters in Thackeray's novel Henry Esmond reappear, though much older, in The Virginians, so that it is a generational sequel. But in this work the contrast is more concerned about interactions between the New World and the Old World, rather than between the intrigues between supporters of the Stuarts and the new dynasty established by William of Orange in 1688.The wide geographic and social panorama was apparently hard for Thackeray to control, and his execution of the story seems desultory. Thus Anthony Trollope expressed qualified praise for the work saying: "There is not a page of it vacant or dull. But he who takes it up to read as a whole, will find that it is the work of a desultory writer, to whom it is not infrequently difficult to remember the incidents of his own narrative."The adventures of the sibling protagonists, George and Harry Esmond Warrington, unfold mainly in Virginia and in England, and further afield in Canada and Europe, beginning with the Seven Years War and continuing beyond the American Revolution. Historical figures abound, including Benjamin Franklin, inventor and statesman; General George Braddock, who led redcoats to one their worst defeats against native populations; George Washington, as a young officer in the colonial army, and General James Wolfe who won French Canada for the British empire.One of the dominant themes of the work is the pervasiveness of vanity, a theme Thackeray dealt with most vituperatively in Vanity Fair but also a quality he uses to ridicule all the characters in this work, some much more viciously than others. Another theme that he explores is the division that politics can bring about in families, so that the two Warrington brothers are on different sides during the American Revolution. With this theme in mind, Thackeray begins his work with the observation, "On the library wall of one of the most famous writers of America, there hang two crossed swords, which his relatives wore in the great War of Independence".The work is worth reading for Thackeray's historical insights and the way in which he demonstrates how public events impact on private lives; how jealousies and affections can persist over several thousand miles and scores of years of separation. But apart from being desultory, Thackeray allows himself to become ensnared by his own love of detail, about his fancies of the effect of a tone or a look or the setting of a hat or a ruff. It may be the author could have saved himself the trouble these details took as many readers may be likely to skip over them.The Virginians
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Mr T. at his best! By L. Baker Being part English and not always proud of it, I delighted in reading this nearly 900-page kindle book. It took me over 12 days of almost non-stop reading. I read slow! I got that flu so this book is how I recovered. Not that I am up on Old English history, poetry, folklore and what- have-you but it was worth reading especially with all the first-hand accounts of the succession from the mother country including names of their Generals, battles and many American heroes were included. SO very fascinating! I loved every minute especially the clean non-graphic accounts of marital bliss and other odd relationships that were woven in as back stories. Mr. T. is one of the finest Novelists of the 18th/19th Century. No one holds a candle to his word-play, puns and visual word-pictures. We are right there in the moment. We are living in the mansions, eating with the guests, playing cards with the table-gamers and losing our money, cassocks, shirts and the even a plantation or two. Although one things is for sure, we are not really losing anything but our time. After the tenth day, my husband looks over from the dishpan and says, "Dear, why don't you pick out a book of the Bible"? I say, This isn't just any book dear, this is American History"! I finish it two days later. I recommend this novel to anyone who has twelve days+ to toss away.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Ok By Katie Prestwich This book was ok but a little tedious. I really liked the characters at first, but they started to get on my nerves after a while. There was some interesting history and some good parts, but I would say the book as a whole was just average. It is the sequel to the History of Henry Edmond, Esq, and I would recommend reading that first as there are lots of allusions made to events that happened in that book, although this book takes place a while later and has different characters (descendants of characters in Henry Edmond).
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