The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1886. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Type: Book Includes "A Little Dinner at Timmins's". Brown and red covers with black titleplate, gilt lettering on leather spine. Moderate edgewear. Corners bumped. Clean and tight pages, no markings in the book. Some of the top edge corner pages earmarked. 355 pages.
Synopsis
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's earliest substantial novel and in some ways his most original, reflecting his view of the true art of fiction: to represent a subject, however unpleasant, with accuracy and wit, and not to moralize.
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- Bookseller
- Folded Corner Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003982
- Title
- The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1886
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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