Barry Lyndon

Complete and unabridged, with 39 full-page plates by George Jones, William Hogarth and William Allan. An Irish adventurer tells the story of his own life — duels, cards, the Seven Years' War, and a marriage to a rich widow — and is a liar in every sentence. Thackeray lost his own inheritance at the tables and wrote this before Vanity Fair, letting the scoundrel narrate himself into the ground. Kub...