Memoirs of Barry Lyndon Esq.

The fictional biography of an adventurer and rogue, Barry Lyndon is born into the petty Irish gentry, and outdone in his first love affair. A ruined Barry volunteers for the British army, and later deserts becoming a spy and then a gambler. Determined to enter fashionable society, Barry marries an heiress but is ultimately outwitted by her, finally ending his days in a debtors' prison. Thackeray's Barry Lyndon reflects the true art of fiction as he represents an unpleasant subject with accuracy and wit -- and without moralizing.Thackeray, William Makepeace is the author of 'Memoirs of Barry Lyndon Esq.' with ISBN 9780140040067 and ISBN 0140040064.