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..
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicato in: 1844
Numero di parole: 127,165 parole (≈ circa 8 ore)
Fonte: http://gutenberg.org
Copyright: Pubblico dominio
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