The title character of his last unfinished novel falls in love with Agnes de Saverne and struggles with the villainous Baron de la Motte.  
The title character of his last unfinished novel falls in love with Agnes de Saverne and struggles with the villainous Baron de la Motte.  The title character of his last finished novel is left penniless after his father, Brand Firmin, loses his fortune and flees to America, after which his cousin Agnes Twysden rejects him.  In addition to Denis Duval and The Adventures of Philip, he wrote such Christmas books as The Rose and the Ring and a novel about an Irish adventurer, Barry Lyndon.  FTP, name this Victorian novelist of The Newcomes, The History of Henry Esmond, and Vanity Fair.
The title character of his last unfinished novel falls in love with Agnes de Saverne and struggles with the villainous Baron de la Motte.  
William Makepeace Thackeray