Category: Barry Lyndon

IN WHICH BARRY TAKES A NEAR VIEW OF MILITARY GLORY.

I never had a taste for anything but genteel company, and hate all descriptions of low life. Hence my account of the society in which I at present found myself … Read the rest

A FALSE START IN THE GENTEEL WORLD.

I rode that night as far as Carlow, where I lay at the best inn; and being asked what was my name by the landlord of the house, gave it as Mr. Redmond, … Read the rest

I SHOW MYSELF TO BE A MAN OF SPIRIT.

During this dispute, my cousin Nora did the only thing that a lady, under such circumstances, could do, and fainted in due form. I was in hot altercation with Mick at … Read the rest

MY PEDIGREE AND FAMILY–UNDERGO THE INFLUENCE OF THE TENDER PASSION.

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it. Ever since ours was a … Read the rest

A Bibliographical Note:

Barry Lyndon–far from the best known, but by some critics acclaimed as the finest, of Thackeray’s works–appeared originally as a serial a few years before Vanity Fair was written; yet it was not published in book form, … Read the rest

BARRY LEADS A GARRISON LIFE, AND FINDS MANY FRIENDS THERE.

After the war our regiment was garrisoned in the capital, the least dull, perhaps, of all the towns of Prussia: but that does not say much for its gaiety. Our … Read the rest

THE CRIMP WAGGON

MILITARY EPISODES.

The covered waggon to which I was ordered to march was standing, as I have said, in the courtyard of the farm, with another dismal vehicle of the same kind hard by it. Each was … Read the rest

BARRY FAR FROM MILITARY GLORY.

After the death of my protector, Captain Fagan, I am forced to confess that I fell into the very worst of courses and company. Being a rough soldier of fortune himself, he had never been … Read the rest

I PROVIDE NOBLY FOR MY FAMILY.

The next day when I went back, my fears were realised: the door was refused to me–my Lady was not at home. This I knew to be false: I had watched the door the … Read the rest

I PAY COURT TO MY LADY LYNDON.

As my uncle’s attainder was not reversed for being out with the Pretender in 1745, it would have been inconvenient for him to accompany his nephew to the land of our ancestors; where, … Read the rest