The Luck of Barry Lyndon

The Luck of Barry Lyndon
Title page for The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1853 edition)
AuthorWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
LanguageEnglish
GenrePicaresque novel
Published1844
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages224

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.

The novel was adapted by Stanley Kubrick into his 1975 film Barry Lyndon.[1]

  1. ^ Canby, Vincent (19 December 1975). "Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon' Is Brilliant in Its Images". The New York Times.

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