Barry Lyndon (Large print ed)

The fictional biography of an adventurer and rogue, Barry Lyndon is born into the petty Irish gentry, and outdone in his first love affair.

A ruined Barry volunteers for the British army, and later deserts becoming a spy and then a gambler.

Determined to enter fashionable society, Barry marries an heiress but is ultimately outwitted by her, finally ending his days in a debtors' prison.

Thackeray's Barry Lyndon reflects the true art of fiction as he represents an unpleasant subject with accuracy and wit -- and without moralizing.