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The Luck of Barry Lyndon
1844 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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. The novel is narrated by Lyndon himself, who functions as a quintessentially unreliable narrator.
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Author | William Makepeace Thackeray |
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Language | English |
Genre | Picaresque novel |
Published | 1844 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Pages | 224 |
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The novel was adapted by Stanley Kubrick into his 1975 film Barry Lyndon.[1]