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The Luck of Barry Lyndon

by William Makepeace Thackeray

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The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Redmond Barry, an Irish adventurer, tells of his rise from a duel in his youth through desertion, card-sharping and a fortune won by marrying a rich widow, and of his fall into ruin and prison, in a memoir that unwittingly exposes him as a scoundrel.