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Title: Barry Lyndon

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

Release Date: October, 2003 [Etext #4558]
Posting Date: December 4, 2009

Language: English

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BARRY LYNDON

By William Makepeace Thackeray

From The Works Of William Makepeace Thackeray

Edited By Walter Jerrold

CONTENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

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

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

III.--I MAKE A FALSE START IN THE GENTEEL WORLD

IV.--IN WHICH BARRY TAKES A NEAR VIEW OF MILITARY GLORY

V.--IN WHICH BARRY TRIES TO REMOVE AS FAR FROM MILITARY GLORY AS
POSSIBLE

VI.--THE CRIMP WAGGON--MILITARY EPISODES

VII.--BARRY LEADS A GARRISON LIFE, AND FINDS MANY FRIENDS THERE

VIII.--BARRY BIDS ADIEU TO THE MILITARY PROFESSION

IX.--I APPEAR IN A MANNER BECOMING MY NAME AND LINEAGE

X.--MORE RUNS OF LUCK

XI.--IN WHICH THE LUCK GOES AGAINST BARRY

XII.--CONTAINS THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE PRINCESS OF X-----

XIII.--I CONTINUE MY CAREER AS A MAN OF FASHION

XIV.--I RETURN TO IRELAND, AND EXHIBIT MY SPLENDOUR AND GENEROSITY
IN THAT KINGDOM

XV.--I PAY COURT TO MY LADY LYNDON

XVI.--I PROVIDE NOBLY FOR MY FAMILY, AND ATTAIN THE HEIGHT OF MY
(SEEMING) GOOD FORTUNE

XVII.--I APPEAR AS AN ORNAMENT OF ENGLISH SOCIETY

XVIII.--IN WHICH MY GOOD FORTUNE BEGINS TO WAVER

XIX.--CONCLUSION

BARRY LYNDON

A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Barry Lyndon--far from the best known, but by some critics acclaimed as
the finest, of Thackeray's works--appeared originally as a serial a few
years before VANITY FAIR was written; yet it was not published in book
form, and then not by itself, until after the publication of VANITY
FAIR, PENDENNIS, ESMOND and THE NEWCOMES had placed its author in the
forefront of