William Thackeray: Memoirs of the Noble Mr Barry-Lyndon

One of the best works of the great English satirist (1811-1863), realistically depicting the life of an Irish noble adventurer, Barry Lyndon, of an impoverished nobleman, ...who is brought up by his mother to foolish pride and boastfulness, ...to brawling and reckless pursuit of money, who is a mercenary in the Seven Years' War, He rises to the top of the social strata by marrying the richest English noblewoman and eventually dies in debtors' prison, when he squandered his wife's fortune, give the author the opportunity to portray the dissolute life of English and European nobility in the 18th century. and the poverty and hardship of the people, especially the Irish people, oppressed by English occupiers and Irish exploiters. Read by Jaromír Spal