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Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon | William Makepeace Thackeray, Andrew Sanders
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Born into the Irish gentry, outmanoeuvred in his first affair, spy and gambler, and married to a titled heiress who finally outwits him, Barry Lyndon is a fictional adventurer and rogue, whom the reader is lead to distrust from the very beginning.
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bunneeboy
Barry Lyndon | William Makepeace Thackeray, Andrew Sanders
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A seedy popinjay recalls his misspent life.

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malkelly
Barry Lyndon | William Makepeace Thackeray, Andrew Sanders
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I read this recently after seeing Kubricks movie in the cinema. It differs a great deal, I would say, from the film. Both, in their own way, are rather wonderful. I was delighted to see my home town mentioned as the place Barry spends his first night of independence.

#wmthackeray #fiction #ireland #classics #19thCentuty #OxfordWorldsClassics

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