The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Beskrivning

Titel: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
Författare: William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 0140040064
Förlag: Penguin Books
Utgivningsår: 1975
Språk: Engelska
Bandtyp: Pocket
Skick: Gott skick – något nötta hörn och ryggändar; gulnade snitt och inlaga; namnad på försättsbladet; inga läsveck i ryggen.

Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. 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.