The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Name: The Luck of Barry Lyndon
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 9781727369632

by 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 1844 276 pages

Category: Literature
Priority: Recommended
Author works: 3
Editions known: 54

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DDC 823.8 LCC PZ-0003.00000000.T325 B35 823.8British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Classic LiteratureEurope -- FictionEurope in fictionFictionGamblersGamblers -- Fiction

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