Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray Fiction Classics

<p><strong>BARRY LYNDON was to be hailed by competent critics as one of Thackeray's finest performances though the author himself seems to have had no strong regard for the story. </strong>His daughter has recorded My father once said to me when I was a girl: 'You needn't read Barry Lyndon you won't like it.' Indeed it is scarcely a book to like but one to admire and to wonder at for its consummate power and mastery. Mr. Leslie Stephen says: All later critics have recognized in this book one of his most powerful performances. In directness and vigor he never surpassed it.</p><p>Anthony Trollope has said of it: In imagination language construction and general literary capacity Thackeray never did anything more remarkable than BARRY LYNDON.</p>