The Luck of Barry Lyndon Annotated
by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Pages
- 408
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-01-18
Overview
The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by 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 was adapted by Stanley Kubrick into the 1975 film Barry Lyndon.
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