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Memoirs of Barry Lyndon
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Manufacturer: Futura Publications
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Memoirs of Barry Lyndon Description
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780860070337
ISBN: 0860070336
Label: Futura Publications
Manufacturer: Futura Publications
Book Pages: 320
Publication Date: 1974-07
Publisher: Futura Publications
Studio: Futura Publications
EAN: 9780860070337
ISBN: 0860070336
Label: Futura Publications
Manufacturer: Futura Publications
Book Pages: 320
Publication Date: 1974-07
Publisher: Futura Publications
Studio: Futura Publications
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Review Summary: An excellent book on one man's rise and fall.
Review: Here, in this relatively obscure work, Thackeray is at his ironic and satiric best. Modern critics lightly dismiss the book as a piece of journalistic hack work, but it is much more than that. Redmond Barry, later Barry Lyndon, chronicles in a fairly sophistocated and always lighthearted manner his rise from a poor Irish country boy to the astral heights of polite English society from 1750-1820. Mr. Barry is always Machievellian in his way, and is quick and efficient with his sword. He is Odysseus, Holden Caulfield, Don Juan, and Nabokov's Humbert Humbert merged. In a word, he is very, very entertaining and very, very good. The book's only glaring flaw is it's belabored and uninspired ending. But it is much worth reading to watch Redmond Barry when young
Review Summary: An excellent book on one man's rise and fall.
Review: Here, in this relatively obscure work, Thackeray is at his ironic and satiric best. Modern critics lightly dismiss the book as a piece of journalistic hack work, but it is much more than that. Redmond Barry, later Barry Lyndon, chronicles in a fairly sophistocated and always lighthearted manner his rise from a poor Irish country boy to the astral heights of polite English society from 1750-1820. Mr. Barry is always Machievellian in his way, and is quick and efficient with his sword. He is Odysseus, Holden Caulfield, Don Juan, and Nabokov's Humbert Humbert merged. In a word, he is very, very entertaining and very, very good. The book's only glaring flaw is it's belabored and uninspired ending. But it is much worth reading to watch Redmond Barry when young