Bibliograph

The memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq., William Makepeace Thackeray ; edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders

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The memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq., William Makepeace Thackeray ; edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

William Makepeace Thackeray ; edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders

Series statement

Oxford world's classics

Summary

"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 views of the true art of fiction: to represent a subject, however unpleasant, with accuracy and wit, and not to moralize. The text is that of George Sainsbury's 1908 Oxford edition which restores passages cut when the novel was revised in 1856."--, Provided by publisher

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