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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

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Barry Lyndon
• Author: William Thackeray
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780199537464
• ISBN: 0199537461
• ID: 04035334
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 270 g
• Dimensions: 129 × 196 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. September 2008

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