Barry Lyndon
$38.54
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
10 September 2008
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199537464 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199537461 |
| Author: | William Makepeace Thackeray, Andrew Sanders |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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About The Author
William Makepeace Thackeray
Joanna Trollope is the author of THE BEST OF FRIENDS, OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN, and most recently, MARRYING THE MISTRESS, among other books. She lives in England.
William Makepeace Thackeray, whose satiric novels are often regarded as the great upper-class counterpart to Dickens’s panoramic depiction of lower-class Victorian society, was born on July 18, 1811, in Calcutta, India. His father, a prosperous official of the British East India Company, died four years later, and at the age of six Thackeray was sent to England to be educated. After graduating from the C
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