Barry Lyndon

I thought William Thackeray was a more popular author — or at least not as overlooked on Goodreads. The novel Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray is at once a satire, a moral parable, and a psychological study of human ambition. Published in the 19th century, it tells the story of the rise an......more

Maybe 2.5. This was an intriguing read, but I didn't love it. The main character is very dislikable – which is certainly the point, and his narrative unreliability is quite interestingly explored, but it makes it harder to enjoy the novel. The pacing was also a little off for me.......more

''...Mr. Barry Lyndon is as unprincipled a personage as ever has figured at the head of a history, and as the public will persist in having a moral appended to such tales, we beg here respectfully to declare that we take the moral of the story of Barry Lyndon, Esquire, to be, - that worldly success......more