The Memoirs Of Barry Lyndon Esq
by William Makepeace Thackeray
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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Synopsis
Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry joins the British army. After service in Germany he deserts and after a brief spell as a spy, pursues the career of a gambler in the dissolute clubs and courts of Europe. In a determined effort to enter fashionable society he marries a titled heiress but finds he has met his match. First published in 1844, Barry Lyndon is Thackeray's earliest substantial novel and in some ways his most original, reflecting his view of the true art of fiction: to represent a subject, however unpleasant, with accuracy and wit, and not to moralize.
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- Seller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 21050318
- Title
- The Memoirs Of Barry Lyndon Esq
- Author
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Nelson Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- No date
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Memoirs Of Barry Lyndon Esq
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- Historical; Fiction;
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