Redmond Barry recounts his own rise from a penniless Irish boy to a man of fashion and fortune in this masterful example of the unreliable narrator While he portrays himself as a victim of circumstance and a gentleman of honor his actions reveal a scoundrel a gambler and a domestic tyrant The novel is a brilliant subversion of the romantic hero trope set against the opulent but morally bankrupt backdrop of 18th-century Europe It challenges the re...