The Luck of Barry Lyndon
11 hrs. 29 min.
Language
Russian
Author
William Thackeray
Author
William Thackeray
Narrator
Roman Pokryshkin
Narrator
Roman Pokryshkin
Description
Victorian literature classics!
Debut novel by the author of the famous bestseller “Vanity Fair”.
In 1975, “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon” were brilliantly adapted for film by the famous director Stanley Kubrick.
The 18th century is the age of adventurers. In search of luck and profit, they crisscross all of Europe—homeless men hiding their identity behind false names and titles, ready for anything.
One of the rank-and-file seekers of Fortune’s favor—the Irishman Redmond Barry. Sinister and frivolous, firmly on the drink and possessing the most vague notions of honor and decency—this lover of life and merry fellow nonetheless keeps turning out to be far more likable than the real aristocrats whom he so desperately wants to break into…
Thackeray’s literary debut—the novel “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon”, published in 1844—had a difficult fate. Dismissed by Victorian critics who failed to understand and accept Thackeray’s elegant, biting, and witty stylization of the British “picaresque novel” of the 18th century, it was completely forgotten during the author’s lifetime. But in the 20th century it earned its deserved fame, entered the golden canon of world literature, and became the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s film masterpiece “Barry Lyndon”.
Debut novel by the author of the famous bestseller “Vanity Fair”.
In 1975, “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon” were brilliantly adapted for film by the famous director Stanley Kubrick.
The 18th century is the age of adventurers. In search of luck and profit, they crisscross all of Europe—homeless men hiding their identity behind false names and titles, ready for anything.
One of the rank-and-file seekers of Fortune’s favor—the Irishman Redmond Barry. Sinister and frivolous, firmly on the drink and possessing the most vague notions of honor and decency—this lover of life and merry fellow nonetheless keeps turning out to be far more likable than the real aristocrats whom he so desperately wants to break into…
Thackeray’s literary debut—the novel “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon”, published in 1844—had a difficult fate. Dismissed by Victorian critics who failed to understand and accept Thackeray’s elegant, biting, and witty stylization of the British “picaresque novel” of the 18th century, it was completely forgotten during the author’s lifetime. But in the 20th century it earned its deserved fame, entered the golden canon of world literature, and became the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s film masterpiece “Barry Lyndon”.
