Redmond Barry, an Irish youth of more pride than fortune, tells his own story with total self-satisfaction: a duel over a cousin, flight into the army during the Seven Years’ War, desertion, and a career as a card-sharp in the courts of Europe. His great scheme is to win the hand and the estates of the wealthy Countess of Lyndon.
A brilliant study of an unreliable narrator, first serialised in Fraser’s Magazine in 1844 and later filmed by Stanley Kubrick. Download the free EPUB.