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by William Makepeace Thackeray (Author), Andrew Sanders (Editor) "SINCE the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (22 April 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192836285
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192836281
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
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A dispossessed 18th-century Irish nobleman uses blackmail, bribery and other underhanded devices to intimidate a wealthy widow into marrying him and relinquishing control of her wealth.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A novel without a hero., 29 Mar 2002
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Like De Foe, Thackeray recorded the "autobiography" of his hero, Barry Lyndon, Irish adventurer, originally Barry Redmond, who became a chance soldier in the British and Prussian armies during the Seven Years War (1756-1763). After his adventures as a soldier and a spy, he becomes a professional gambler and faithful companion of the Chevalier de Balibari. Together they cheat the most famous courts of Europe with their "skill" at cards and build up a substantial fortune to add to their fame. The gambler gives up his days of adventure-seeking after conveniently "falling in love" with the Countess of Lyndon just after her extremely wealthy husband dies. His downfall comes soon after.
Highly recommended for the historical novel lover.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Barry Lyndon, the not so lovable rogue, 11 Jun 2009
By Trevor Coote "Trevor Coote" (Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia) - See all my reviews
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Following in the footsteps of Fielding and Smollett, William Thackeray attempts to relate the tale of a lovable rogue, Redmond Barry, in the picaresque style. Narrated in the first person, distinctly unlovable Barry is the classic `unreliable narrator'. Born into insignificant Irish gentry the vain, narcissistic and self-deluding Barry is forced to flee from his native Ireland at the age of fifteen after apparently killing a man in a duel. First joining the British army and then pressed into the Prussian army during the Seven Years War he fights a few battles, deserts and then travels around Europe hobnobbing with the imbecilic European aristocracy and passing his time womanising, gambling and amassing a fortune. He finally returns to Ireland, cons and marries a rich widow and becomes Barry Lyndon. His downfall, when it comes, is not only inevitable but welcome because, rumbustious fun as the novel undoubtedly is, the incessant boasting and name-dropping eventually become somewhat tiresome.
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