The Luck of Barry Lyndon
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(Redirected from The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.)
The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1844, about an Irish peasant trying to become a gentleman. Stanley Kubrick's movie Barry Lyndon (1975) was based on it.
Unlike the film, the novel is narrated by Barry himself.
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