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Barry Lyndon
An Irish gentleman schemes his way toward English aristocracy through a life of duels, military service, gambling, and seduction.
"Barry Lyndon" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a picaresque novel. An Irish gentleman schemes his way toward English aristocracy through a life of duels, military service, gambling, and seduction.
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Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it. Ever since ours was a family (and that must be very NEAR Adam’s time,—so old, noble, and illustrious are the Barrys, as everybody knows) women have played a mighty part with the destinies of our race.
I presume that there is no gentleman in Europe that has not heard of the house of Barry of Barryogue, of the kingdom of Ireland, than which a more famous name is not to be found in Gwillim or D’Hozier; and though, as a man of the world, I have learned to despise heartily the claims of some PRETENDERS to high birth who have no more genealogy than the lacquey who cleans my boots, and though I laugh to utter scorn the boasting of many of my countrymen, who are all for descending from kings of Ireland, and talk of a domain no bigger than would feed a pig as if it were a principality; yet truth compels me to assert that my family was the noblest of the island, and, perhaps, of the universal world; while their possessions, now insignificant and torn from us by war, by treachery, by the loss of time, by ancestral extravagance, by adhesion to the old faith and monarch, were formerly prodigious, and embraced many counties, at a time when Ireland was vastly more prosperous than now. I would assume the Irish crown over my coat-of-arms, but that there are so many silly pretenders to that distinction who bear it and render it common.
Contents
- 01A Bibliographical Note
- 02The Memoires of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
- 03Chapter I. My Pedigree and Family—Undergo the Influence of the Tender
- 04Chapter II. I Show Myself to Be a Man of Spirit
- 05Chapter III. A False Start in the Genteel World
- 06Chapter IV. In Which Barry Takes a Near View of Military Glory
- 07Chapter V. Barry Far from Military Glory
- 08Chapter VI. The Crimp Waggon—Military Episodes
- 09Chapter VII. Barry Leads a Garrison Life, and Finds Many Friends There
- 10Chapter VIII. Barry’s Adieu to Military Profession
- 11Chapter IX. I Appear in a Manner Becoming My Name and Lineage
- 12Chapter X. More Runs of Luck
- 13Chapter XI. In Which the Luck Goes Against Barry
- 14Chapter XII. Tragical History of Princess of X——
- 15Chapter XIII. I Continue My Career as a Man of Fashion
- 16Chapter XIV. I Return to Ireland, and Exhibit My Splendour and
- 17Chapter XV. I Pay Court to My Lady Lyndon
- 18Chapter XVI. I Provide Nobly for My Family
- 19Chapter XVII. I Appear as an Ornament of English Society
- 20Chapter XVIII. My Good Fortune Begins to Waver
- 21Chapter XIX. Conclusion
About this edition
- Author
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 321 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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