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The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
by William Makepeace Thackeray
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- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Caxton Publishing Co., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 571 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter bound black leather with green cloth covered boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Book has been rebound. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate peeling to spine and corners. Minor wear marks to boards.
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
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1669128092CRH
- Title
- The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
- Author
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Caxton Publishing Co.
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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