Barry Lyndon - William Makepeace Thackeray [GRATUIT]

BARRY LYNDON

An Irish adventurer, a soldier of fortune, a self-made gentleman — and one of literature’s most unforgettable anti-heroes. This is his story, in his own words.

William Makepeace Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon follows the rise and fall of Redmond Barry, an Irishman who crosses Europe during the Seven Years’ War, reinvents himself as a man of rank, and ultimately destroys everything he has built. Told with biting irony and mordant wit, it is one of the great satirical novels of the 19th century — a portrait of ambition, self-delusion, and the brutal mechanics of social climbing.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS NOVEL

• An epic fresco of 18th-century Europe : The Seven Years’ War, aristocratic courts, and the underworld of gamblers
• A masterful anti-hero : Redmond Barry, charming, ruthless, and utterly unreliable as a narrator
• Thackeray’s biting satire : A merciless portrait of social ambition and aristocratic pretension
• A precursor of the modern novel : The unreliable narrator, a century before it became fashionable

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