The Luck of Barry Lyndon

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Luck of Barry Lyndon — William Makepeace Thackeray’s satirical novel is narrated by the boastful and unreliable Irish adventurer Redmond Barry. Through duels, war, gambling, European courts, and his pursuit of aristocratic rank, Barry tells a grand story of his own success while exposing a comic gulf between self-image and reality, ambition and merit, money, class, and deception.