Barry Lyndon

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Waterloo Library Journal Publishing Service - Barry Lyndon and the Limits of Understanding
The Victorian Web - W. M. Thackeray's "The Luck of Barry Lyndon"
Digital Commons at West Chester University - "Proving a thing even while you contradict it": Fictions, Beliefs, and Legitimation in The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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Barry Lyndon, fictional character, the roguish Irish protagonist and narrator of William Makepeace Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon (1844; revised version 1856).

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.