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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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Author died in 1863; original text first published in 1844. These dates support the public-domain basis for this original-language edition.

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The Luck of Barry Lyndon

By William Makepeace Thackeray

From The Works Of William Makepeace Thackeray

Edited By Walter Jerrold

Capitolo in anteprimaI.--MY PEDIGREE AND FAMILY--UNDERGO THE INFLUENCE OF THE TENDERAnteprima

I.--MY PEDIGREE AND FAMILY--UNDERGO THE INFLUENCE OF THE TENDER

Capitolo in anteprimaII.--IN WHICH I SHOW MYSELF TO BE A MAN OF SPIRITAnteprima

II.--IN WHICH I SHOW MYSELF TO BE A MAN OF SPIRIT

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02I.--MY PEDIGREE AND FAMILY--UNDERGO THE INFLUENCE OF THE TENDER
  3. 03II.--IN WHICH I SHOW MYSELF TO BE A MAN OF SPIRIT
  4. 04III.--I MAKE A FALSE START IN THE GENTEEL WORLD
  5. 05IV.--IN WHICH BARRY TAKES A NEAR VIEW OF MILITARY GLORY
  6. 06V.--IN WHICH BARRY TRIES TO REMOVE AS FAR FROM MILITARY GLORY AS
  7. 07VI.--THE CRIMP WAGGON--MILITARY EPISODES
  8. 08VII.--BARRY LEADS A GARRISON LIFE, AND FINDS MANY FRIENDS THERE
  9. 09VIII.--BARRY BIDS ADIEU TO THE MILITARY PROFESSION
  10. 10IX.--I APPEAR IN A MANNER BECOMING MY NAME AND LINEAGE
  11. 11XI.--IN WHICH THE LUCK GOES AGAINST BARRY
  12. 12XII.--CONTAINS THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE PRINCESS OF X-----
  13. 13XIII.--I CONTINUE MY CAREER AS A MAN OF FASHION
  14. 14XIV.--I RETURN TO IRELAND, AND EXHIBIT MY SPLENDOUR AND GENEROSITY
  15. 15XVI.--I PROVIDE NOBLY FOR MY FAMILY, AND ATTAIN THE HEIGHT OF MY
  16. 16(SEEMING) GOOD FORTUNE
  17. 17XVII.--I APPEAR AS AN ORNAMENT OF ENGLISH SOCIETY
  18. 18XVIII.--IN WHICH MY GOOD FORTUNE BEGINS TO WAVER
  19. 19CHAPTER I. MY PEDIGREE AND FAMILY--UNDERGO THE INFLUENCE OF THE TENDER
  20. 20CHAPTER II. I SHOW MYSELF TO BE A MAN OF SPIRIT
  21. 21WEEK THERE.’
  22. 22‘REDMOND BARRY.’
  23. 23‘REDMOND.’
  24. 24CHAPTER III. A FALSE START IN THE GENTEEL WORLD
  25. 25CHAPTER IV. IN WHICH BARRY TAKES A NEAR VIEW OF MILITARY GLORY
  26. 26CHAPTER V. BARRY FAR FROM MILITARY GLORY
  27. 27part. The town was evacuated, except by a few Prussian troops, whose
  28. 28CHAPTER VI. THE CRIMP WAGGON--MILITARY EPISODES
  29. 29CHAPTER VII. BARRY LEADS A GARRISON LIFE, AND FINDS MANY FRIENDS THERE
  30. 30part of their parents abroad. My captain agreed to find means to forward
  31. 31CHAPTER VIII. BARRY’S ADIEU TO MILITARY PROFESSION
  32. 32CHAPTER IX. I APPEAR IN A MANNER BECOMING MY NAME AND LINEAGE
  33. 33‘THE CHEVALIER DE BALIBARI.’
  34. 34CHAPTER XI. IN WHICH THE LUCK GOES AGAINST BARRY
  35. 35CHAPTER XII. TRAGICAL HISTORY OF PRINCESS OF X----
  36. 36CHAPTER XIII. I CONTINUE MY CAREER AS A MAN OF FASHION
  37. 37CHAPTER XIV. I RETURN TO IRELAND, AND EXHIBIT MY SPLENDOUR AND
  38. 38CHAPTER XV. I PAY COURT TO MY LADY LYNDON
  39. 39CHAPTER XVI. I PROVIDE NOBLY FOR MY FAMILY
  40. 40book, or to canter on horseback by the side of her chariot.
  41. 41chapter of my biography, that the kingdom of Ireland was at this
  42. 42‘H. LYNDON.’
  43. 43CHAPTER XVII. I APPEAR AS AN ORNAMENT OF ENGLISH SOCIETY
  44. 44chapter, and determined, in his high mightiness, that he too should go
  45. 45CHAPTER XVIII. MY GOOD FORTUNE BEGINS TO WAVER
  46. 46part of his time, occupied with the musty old books which he took out of

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