The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
β Scribed by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Book ID
- 112048318
- Publisher
- Feedbooks
- Year
- 1844
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 229 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in serial form 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 rakehell and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq..
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