The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (Oxford World's Classics)
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ISBN: 0192816675 / Publisher: Oxford University Press, September 1984
A dispossessed eighteenth-century Irish nobleman uses blackmail, bribery, and other underhanded devices to intimidate a wealthy widow into marrying him and relinquishing control of her wealth
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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.
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