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Barry Lyndon: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (Oxford World's Classics)
by THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
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- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0192836285
- ISBN 13
- 9780192836281
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About This Item
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Andrew Sanders. Includes Textual Note, Bibliography, Chronology, Appendix, Explanatory Notes. The text is that of George Saintsbury's 1908 Oxford edition which restores passages cut when the novel was revised in 1856. Glossy, bright, clean cover, with faint wear to edges; binding tight, solid, square. Internals quite clean, no marks, no creases. Set in the second half of the 18th century, "Barry Lyndon" is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue, born into the petty Irish gentry, one to distrust as soon as you meet him--a spy, a gambler in the dissolute clubs and courts of Europe, attempt at entry into fashionable society--he tries it all. xxxii, 349 pages. 5 x 7.75 inches. 1999, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York.
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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- Title
- Barry Lyndon: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (Oxford World's Classics)
- Author
- THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0192836285
- ISBN 13
- 9780192836281
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford and New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- CLASSIC LITERATURE ENGLISH LITERATURE, 19TH CENTURY FICTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY ROGUES ADVENTURERS GAMBLER
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- Fiction. Classics;
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- 0 oz
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