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The Luck of Barry Lyndon
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A satirical rise-and-fall narrative of an Irish adventurer chasing fortune, marriage, rank, and European glamour.
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon
The Luck of Barry Lyndon presents one of Thackeray’s great unreliable narrators: boastful, charming, self-deceiving, and morally slippery. Moving through duels, gambling tables, armies, salons, and aristocratic marriage, the novel exposes social climbing and self-invention with comic cruelty.
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon
By William Makepeace Thackeray
From The Works Of William Makepeace Thackeray
Edited By Walter Jerrold
Chapitre d'aperçuI.--MY PEDIGREE AND FAMILY--UNDERGO THE INFLUENCE OF THE TENDERAperçu
I.--MY PEDIGREE AND FAMILY--UNDERGO THE INFLUENCE OF THE TENDER
Chapitre d'aperçuII.--IN WHICH I SHOW MYSELF TO BE A MAN OF SPIRITAperçu
II.--IN WHICH I SHOW MYSELF TO BE A MAN OF SPIRIT
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- 01Full text
- 02I.--MY PEDIGREE AND FAMILY--UNDERGO THE INFLUENCE OF THE TENDER
- 03II.--IN WHICH I SHOW MYSELF TO BE A MAN OF SPIRIT
- 04III.--I MAKE A FALSE START IN THE GENTEEL WORLD
- 05IV.--IN WHICH BARRY TAKES A NEAR VIEW OF MILITARY GLORY
- 06V.--IN WHICH BARRY TRIES TO REMOVE AS FAR FROM MILITARY GLORY AS
- 07VI.--THE CRIMP WAGGON--MILITARY EPISODES
- 08VII.--BARRY LEADS A GARRISON LIFE, AND FINDS MANY FRIENDS THERE
- 09VIII.--BARRY BIDS ADIEU TO THE MILITARY PROFESSION
- 10IX.--I APPEAR IN A MANNER BECOMING MY NAME AND LINEAGE
- 11XI.--IN WHICH THE LUCK GOES AGAINST BARRY
- 12XII.--CONTAINS THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE PRINCESS OF X-----
- 13XIII.--I CONTINUE MY CAREER AS A MAN OF FASHION
- 14XIV.--I RETURN TO IRELAND, AND EXHIBIT MY SPLENDOUR AND GENEROSITY
- 15XVI.--I PROVIDE NOBLY FOR MY FAMILY, AND ATTAIN THE HEIGHT OF MY
- 16(SEEMING) GOOD FORTUNE
- 17XVII.--I APPEAR AS AN ORNAMENT OF ENGLISH SOCIETY
- 18XVIII.--IN WHICH MY GOOD FORTUNE BEGINS TO WAVER
- 19CHAPTER I. MY PEDIGREE AND FAMILY--UNDERGO THE INFLUENCE OF THE TENDER
- 20CHAPTER II. I SHOW MYSELF TO BE A MAN OF SPIRIT
- 21WEEK THERE.’
- 22‘REDMOND BARRY.’
- 23‘REDMOND.’
- 24CHAPTER III. A FALSE START IN THE GENTEEL WORLD
- 25CHAPTER IV. IN WHICH BARRY TAKES A NEAR VIEW OF MILITARY GLORY
- 26CHAPTER V. BARRY FAR FROM MILITARY GLORY
- 27part. The town was evacuated, except by a few Prussian troops, whose
- 28CHAPTER VI. THE CRIMP WAGGON--MILITARY EPISODES
- 29CHAPTER VII. BARRY LEADS A GARRISON LIFE, AND FINDS MANY FRIENDS THERE
- 30part of their parents abroad. My captain agreed to find means to forward
- 31CHAPTER VIII. BARRY’S ADIEU TO MILITARY PROFESSION
- 32CHAPTER IX. I APPEAR IN A MANNER BECOMING MY NAME AND LINEAGE
- 33‘THE CHEVALIER DE BALIBARI.’
- 34CHAPTER XI. IN WHICH THE LUCK GOES AGAINST BARRY
- 35CHAPTER XII. TRAGICAL HISTORY OF PRINCESS OF X----
- 36CHAPTER XIII. I CONTINUE MY CAREER AS A MAN OF FASHION
- 37CHAPTER XIV. I RETURN TO IRELAND, AND EXHIBIT MY SPLENDOUR AND
- 38CHAPTER XV. I PAY COURT TO MY LADY LYNDON
- 39CHAPTER XVI. I PROVIDE NOBLY FOR MY FAMILY
- 40book, or to canter on horseback by the side of her chariot.
- 41chapter of my biography, that the kingdom of Ireland was at this
- 42‘H. LYNDON.’
- 43CHAPTER XVII. I APPEAR AS AN ORNAMENT OF ENGLISH SOCIETY
- 44chapter, and determined, in his high mightiness, that he too should go
- 45CHAPTER XVIII. MY GOOD FORTUNE BEGINS TO WAVER
- 46part of his time, occupied with the musty old books which he took out of
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