Barry Lyndon (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- First Published: 1844
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Picaresque
- Time of Work: Eighteenth century
- Setting: England, Ireland, and elsewhere in Europe
- 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
Characters Discussed
Redmond Barry, later Redmond Barry LyndonRedmond Barry Lyndon, the boastful and petulant narrator. He is a corrupt bully; throughout his many adventures, he behaves with consistent dishonor. At the novel’s end, suffering from delirium tremens, he dies in the Fleet Prison.
The Widow Barry, his mother, who was deprived of wealth and estates by relatives. She devotes herself to the rearing of her son until his Uncle Brady persuades her to let him take the boy to Brady Castle. Much later, after Barry’s marriage, Widow Barry lives with her son and...
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William Makepeace Thackeray (Cyclopedia of World Authors)William Makepeace Thackeray (Short Fiction)William Makepeace Thackeray (Long Fiction)
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