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Barry Lyndon
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Description for Barry Lyndon
Paperback. Editor(s): Sanders, Andrew. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 129 x 196 x 23. Weight in Grams: 266.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199537464
SKU
V9780199537464
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