Barry Lyndon by William M. Thackeray [MOVIE TIE-IN PAPERBACK] 1975 • Tempo Books

Barry Lyndon aka The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray 

VINTAGE MOVIE TIE IN PAPERBACK [1975] TEMPO BOOKS

Scarce 1975 movie tie in mass market printing featuring poster art from the Stanley Kubrick film of the same year.  First Printing! 

Book is in very good condition. 

Cover shows mild but visible shelf and edge wear.   

One small spot stain to text block.  

Reads flawlessly. 

Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmaneuvered in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry joins the British army. After service in Germany he deserts and, after a brief spell as a spy, pursues the career of a gambler in the dissolute clubs and courts of Europe. In a determined effort to enter fashionable society he marries a titled heiress but finds he has met his match. First published in 1844, Barry Lyndon is Thackeray's earliest substantial novel and in some ways his most original, reflecting his views of the true art of fiction: to represent a subject, however unpleasant, with accuracy and wit, and not to moralize.