Barry Lyndon (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192836285 ISBN 13: 9780192836281

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1999

Synopsis

First published in 1844, this is Thackeray's earliest substantial work of fiction and perhaps his most original. The text is that of Saintbury's 1908 Oxford edition which incorporates Thackeray's revisions.

About this title

About the Author:

Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta. He studied at Cambridge, but, never a keen student, he left the University in 1830 to travel the continent. He began to study law but gave it up and squandered much of his inheritance on gambling and poor investments. He studied art in Paris, but he did not pursue that professionally either, except to illustrate his own novels.He was a successful novelist, earning the adulation of the very people he satirized. His death at 53 was unexpected.

Synopsis:

A dispossessed 18th-century Irish nobleman uses blackmail, bribery and other underhanded devices to intimidate a wealthy widow into marrying him and relinquishing control of her wealth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192836285
• ISBN 13: 9780192836281
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Sanders Andrew