The Luck of Barry Lyndon
Title page for The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1853 edition) | |
| Author | William Makepeace Thackeray |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Picaresque novel |
| Published | 1844 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 224 |
| LC Class | PR5608.A2 H37 |
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.