The Luck of Barry Lyndon, by William Makepeace Thackeray
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon, by William Makepeace Thackeray
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A continent-spanning adventure featuring one of literature’s greatest rogues Redmond Barry has almost all the qualities of a gentleman: he speaks well, has learned courtly etiquette, and can hold his own with a sword in hand. But passion is his downfall—passion for life, for excitement, and unfortunately, for his cousin Nora. When he almost kills Nora’s suitor in a duel, Barry flees to Dublin, and the adventure of his life begins. A consummate rake and con man, Barry finds himself on the battlefield against the Prussians in the Seven Years’ War after losing everything. But war—and life, for that matter—is not exactly what Barry wished or expected it to be. A braggart’s tale through and through, with an antihero of epic proporations, The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a brisk romp through one of literature’s most unusual lives. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
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- Published on: 2015-03-31
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Review (in full The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esquire) Historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon: A Romance of the Last Century. The book was published in two volumes in 1852-53, and it was revised ("with admissions") as The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. in 1856. The novel concerns the life and times of the title character and narrator, a roguish Irishman. The fast-flowing satirical narrative reveals a man dedicated to success and good fortune. Born Redmond Barry, he leaves his homeland after shooting a man in a duel. He becomes a soldier of fortune and later works as a professional gambler. Remade as a man of fashion, he courts a wealthy widow, marries her, and assumes her aristocratic name of Lyndon. He mistreats both her and her son and spends and gambles away her money, but eventually she extricates herself from the alliance. By the novel's end he is in jail, cared for by his mother. -- The Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature
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About the Author William Makepeace Thackeray was a nineteenth century English novelist who was most famous for his classic novel, Vanity Fair, a satirical portrait of English society. With an early career as a satirist and parodist, Thackeray shared a fondness for roguish characters that is evident in his early works such as Vanity Fair, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, and Catherine, and was ranked second only to Charles Dickens during the height of his career. In his later work, Thackeray transitioned from the satirical tone for which he was known to a more traditional Victorian narrative, the most notable of which is The History of Henry Esmond. Thackeray died in 1863.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Shocking rise (and fall) of a rogue as told by a Victorian worthy By LizaJane Reading other reviews here I am amazed at the different (from mine) reactions. It is many years since I read the book; nevertheless it made an indelible impression. Having at the time only read and enjoyed the author's famous "Vanity Fair" and, long ago, "Pendennis," I was blown away by the totally unsentimental depiction of a entirely amoral anti-hero, scarcely to be expected in the work of any Victorian novelist. (The character of Becky Sharp in "Vanity Fair" is comparable, though her impact is considerably softened by the other, more conventional characters, as well as the third person story-telling.)What most remains in my memory is the story of his pursuit of the wealthiest heiress in Britain. He wins her by the simple means of pursuing her relentlessly until she agrees to marry him just out of fatigue. (I've often thought that many a man could learn something about how to win a woman by reading this reprehensible account.) He then persecutes her young son cruelly, so viciously in fact that even he feels some regret for the suffering he causes the boy and his mother.Told in the first person, the tale is so unvarnished and "in-your-face" that it seemed to me impossible to mistake the nature of the character Thackeray portrays. Though he constantly refers to his supposed aristocratic background, it is quite clear that like many another Irish opportunist, his lineage is nothing that a thousand others couldn't claim equally.Essentially, this is a Victorian novel totally unlike any other Victorian novel I have ever read, and as such deserves many more readers than it has had, even allowing for those who picked it up after seeing the Kubrick movie (in my opinion a waste of film.)
17 of 23 people found the following review helpful. Remarkably accurate portrayal of the vice of social climbing By Dr. Lee D. Carlson This story, like many others published in the 19th century, has many parallels today. The environment in which its characters were embedded in was certainly different, but their aspirations and pettiness has its analog in contemporary society. The moment when one decides to cloak oneself in the doctrine of respectability is when one has morphed into a Barry Lyndon. Thackeray's novel is in this sense a testament to conservatism: how traditions and beliefs, no matter how sterile they are, are dragged from one generation to the next. Young generations, of which Redmond Barry is an example, are fitted with the shackles of these beliefs, with only some managing to release themselves. The others are content to proceed along the path of a Barry Lyndon: to find some kind of contentment or belonging in societal norms, the latter of course never to be questioned.Some readers may consider Barry the epitome of wisdom and cleverness. After all, he attained enormous wealth and respectability, and this is sometimes taken to be an acid test for intelligence and courage. And in this regard it must be remembered that Barry was at first no deadbeat: he was always good on his gambling debts. But apparently this was not "respectable" enough to buy his election to the House near the end of the story. Others plotted his defeat here, either motivated by envy or some other equally decadent emotion. Barry condemns the people (the Tiptoffs) that did this to him, as if he alone should be granted a divine right to swindle.The historical tidbits in the novel are not to be missed: references to the American Revolution and its support by Edmund Burke, the hero of modern conservative thought; the mentioning of the "old scamp and swindler" Gustavus Adolphus; the Thirty Years War with its deplorable confrontation between Catholics and Protestants; and of course the Seven Year's War in which the story has as its backdrop.But less Barry be condemned as being the most reprehensible of characters, one need only be reminded of Lord Bullingdon and his insistence on lineage as being the origin of true virtue. Or maybe Captain John Quin who demanded respect for his being an Englishman, and a "man of property." And then there is Barry's family, who scolded him for "robbing them of 1500l a year." These characters may induce a strong perturbation in some readers, enough perhaps to wish these characters' faces be decorated with a thick coat of saliva.What could a reader say about the supposed "moral of the story", namely that worldly success is not always the consequence of virtue? There is a plethora of contemporary evidence for this: one need only step into a university to observe an abundance of milksops. But when one asks what the nature of good fortune really is, the issue becomes complex. One must then be able to differentiate luck from the results of carefully made plans, or even to dispense completely with the concept of luck. The Irish leprechaun is not to be depended upon in the story and "accomplishments" of Barry Lyndon, the untimely death of Sir Charles Lyndon not withstanding. Barry's misfortunes and eventual demise were mainly the result of his comfort at being an ornament of English society, with his self-painting using the varnishes of unearned wealth, with his dogmatic belief that only rogues succeed in life, with his selling of his personal liberty to the Establishment, the latter of which he pledged steadfast obedience and homage. In the latter Barry shows kinship to the contemporary conservative, who asks us to respect institutions and hierarchies, but this going hand in hand with the perhaps unintended consequence of showing "hearty scorn and abhorrence of all other forms of belief".But Barry's sojourn in the logosphere of pretentious English society did not last throughout his life, he eventually passing on in debtors prison. This is a fitting tribute to one who thought mammon to be the most stable and controlling entity in his existence. Barry was thrown in prison for not paying his debts, and like these he never paid the debt to himself: the self that he extinguished as soon as he made the decision to embed himself in the established practices of his day, however sterile, unproductive, and supercilious they were.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Barry Lyndon - a self-condemning scoundrel By Greg Deane William Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon, is a novel-without-a-hero, narrated by the disingenuous Irish adventurer, Barry Redmond, whose lies and misrepresentations, coupled with his misconceptions of honour and manners, unintentionally reveal him to be a bullying scoundrel. Fleeing from the legal consequences of a duel, he becomes an enlisted soldier in both British and Prussian armies during the Seven Years War (1756-1763). His duplicitous nature serves him well as a spy, a gamester and confidence man, improving his skills as a charlatan under his uncle, the Chevalier de Balibari. He hunts down the Countess of Lyndon, picking quarrels with her admirers and duelling with them, while weaving a scandal round her that obliges her to marry him. Despite achieving a great fortune, he dies, attended only by his mother, a bankrupt in the Fleet Prison. On his life's journey he becomes increasingly alcoholic, starting on one bottle of wine a day to six, and suffering from delirium tremens.Barry Lyndon may be Thackeray's most unsavoury story, the eponymous character having no redeeming traits at all. Redmond Barry is similar to Henry Fielding's villain Jonathan Wild, though he commits his own misdeeds, always managing to stay within the law as it was in the 18th century. Unlike Wilding, Lyndon amuses his audience by his lack of self-knowledge frequently describing others as 'Common' while coming to believe in the fantasy he embellishes that he is descended from the kings of Ireland.Other inconsistencies abound including Lyndon's belief that he is a man of courage and of genius, though he is tricked by his first love, Nora Brady; the intriguing Countess Ida; and, on several occasions, by his wife, Lady Lyndon, whom the reader is pleased to see finally manages to rid herself of him. He is a bully who abuses and robs those unable to defend themselves -- women, children, and weaklings, including Lord Fakenham whom he beats and robs while he is wounded and bedridden with fever. He savagely thrashes his step-son, Lord Bullingdon, when he begins to defy him.A further irony in Lyndon's claims to noble Irish lineage, is conveyed by his Protestant upbringing, an implication that his family has betrayed its Catholic heritage for property rights, while he boasts that he has taught to think of himself as an Englishman.The novel is a rewarding book that provides insights into several social levels in a number of European settings in the 18th century; and it is a shrewd psychological study of a mountebank who unintentionally condemns himself out of his own mouth.Barry Lyndon
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