Barry Lyndon | Barry Lyndon

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Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
First Published: 1844
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Picaresque
Time of Work: Mid- to late eighteenth century
Genres: Long fiction, Picaresque fiction
Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Adolescence, Abused persons, Gambling, Europe or Europeans, Marriage, Antiheroes, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Illegitimacy, Ambition, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Cruelty, Adventure, Soldiers, Ireland or Irish people, Braggarts
Locales: Europe, England, Ireland

Places Discussed

Barryville. Irish town that is the birthplace and early home of the braggart and bully Redmond Barry—later to become Barry Lyndon. The novel opens with Barry Lyndon, at age forty, looking back over his life in an attempt to give it shape. He begins his memoir with a description of the tiny house in Barryville where he was born and expresses his bitter regret over the loss of his family’s vast ancestral lands to a British aristocrat named Lyndon.

In Barryville, Barry falls from grace. After watching British soldiers parading in the Irish fields, he...

Barry Lyndon | Barry Lyndon

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