Barry Lyndon: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (Oxford World's Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Author: William Makepeace ThackerayEditor: Andrew Sanders
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-08-19
ISBN: 0192836285
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: A Victorian faces the XVIIIth. Century.
Summary: 5 Stars
When one is about to take the big plunge and give oneself the trouble of making what is always -in our age of lighter reading, of course - the strenuous effort of reading a XIXth. Century novelist, one - at least me - must make the following question: What was this author's particular attitude, as a man (or woman) of the most bourgeois of all centuries, towards his/her preceding century, the most aristocratic and un-bourgeois XVIIIth. Century? If s/he scorns the XVIIIth. Century, or is indifferent to it, it's quite likely that the author in question is a bourgeois philistine regarding Victorian times as the undisputed acme of human civilization. If s/he is an admirer, than s/he is obviously starting out of a clear sense of alienation from his/her own society, and one should expect at least for this XIXth. Century _avis rara_, genuine sense of humor. Thackeray was one of such Victorians who realized the philisteism of his own society;Eça de Queiroz, his Portuguese disciple (who seems to have learned a lot from reading him) was another. Therefore: Read this book, QED.
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