The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, This book is about a member of the Irish gentry (Redmond Barry of Bally Barry) who is desperately trying to become a member of the English aristocracy.Thackeray based the novel on the life of Andrew Robinson Stoney. The book was later reissued under the title 'The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq'
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