432 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 1920 by The Gregg publishing company.
William Makepeace Thackeray: Barry Lyndon (1920, The Gregg publishing company)
- OCLC Number:
- 3766631
3 stars
(1 review)
Set in late 18th century Europe the adventures and misadventures of a minor member of the Irish gentry trying to better himself. Redmond Barry of Bally Barry is a clever young man, who learns the manners of a gentleman. This serves him well, for the next few decades he meanders through Europe, as a soldier, mercenary, gambler, and vagabond. He reaches the pinnacle of worldly success by marriage to an English heiress, but disastrously squanders her fortune and good will.
Subjects
- Irish -- Foreign countries -- Fiction
- Rogues and vagabonds -- Fiction
- Gamblers -- Fiction
- Ireland -- Fiction
- Europe -- Fiction