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The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Name: The Luck of Barry Lyndon
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

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The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy. Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rake and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

First published: 1853 276 pages

Category: Literature
Priority: Recommended
Author works: 3
Language: eng

Subjects

IrishIrish in fictionRogues and vagabonds in fictionFictionGamblersEurope in fictionGamblers in fictionClassic LiteratureIreland in fictionRogues and vagabonds

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