Barry Lyndon (Esprios Classics)

The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by 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.