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...reading will include the scene from "Henry Esmond" between Esmond and the Prince, and "The Ballad of Bouillabaisse...
...interesting, as an index to good books, to note those on which many of the thirty were agreed. Some work of Scott's was selected by almost all, Henry Esmond by seventeen, some work of Victor Hugo's by sixteen, Vanity Fair by fifteen, Don Quixote, Middlemarch, and one of Balzac's by twelve, Tom Jones by ten, Adam Bede, David Copperfield, and one of Miss Austen's by nine, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Kidnapped or David Balfour by seven, the Pickwick Papers and a Tale of Two Cities by six, and Gil Blas by five...
...idea that great books go by fashion but we must read some books because the world is reading them; we must keep "in touch" with society. Such was the popularity of Uncle Tom's Cabin that Thackeray regretted he had not made a negro the hero of Henry Esmond which appeared in the same year...
...subjects for the next theme in Junior A are: The Character of Sydney Carton; The Character of Henry V.; The Character of Henry Esmond; The Character of Daniel Deronda...