The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844...
25 KB (3,462 words) - 19:08, 18 March 2024
Barry Lyndon is a 1975 epic historical drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon...
56 KB (5,433 words) - 17:42, 16 May 2024
William Makepeace Thackeray (redirect from Jeames of Buckley Square)
1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley...
43 KB (5,065 words) - 07:32, 4 May 2024
novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackery and its 1975 film adaptation by director Stanley Kubrick. James Freney was a native of County...
6 KB (778 words) - 03:02, 30 April 2024
Andrew Robinson Stoney (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Stanley Kubrick later adapted the novel into the 1975 award-winning film Barry Lyndon. Stoney's first wife, Hannah, was the...
8 KB (1,026 words) - 19:04, 29 January 2024
novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon and its 1975 film adaptation Barry Lyndon Barry McKenzie, Australian comic strip and movie character Barry the Chopper,...
25 KB (2,972 words) - 01:24, 20 April 2024
of the 2000s Redmond Barry, title character of the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon and its 1975 film adaptation Barry Lyndon This disambiguation page...
520 bytes (104 words) - 03:49, 11 May 2020
Parvenu (section In the United States)
Hall. Barry Lyndon, the protagonist of the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant tells the story...
9 KB (1,064 words) - 17:42, 19 April 2024
Victorian literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
view of his characters, he also tended to depict a more middle-class society than Dickens did. He is best known for his novels The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844)...
26 KB (3,039 words) - 14:54, 3 March 2024
Seven Years' War (redirect from European theater of the Seven Years' War)
coalition of European powers, and lacking any substantial ally. The novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844) by William Makepeace Thackeray is set against the Seven...
147 KB (17,441 words) - 16:29, 14 May 2024
became one of the biggest scandals of the period. His story was fictionalised by William Makepeace Thackeray in The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Stanley Kubrick...
10 KB (1,221 words) - 17:30, 19 February 2024
Picaresque novel (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
of redemption The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)—follows the career of fortune-hunting adventuress Becky Sharp. His earlier novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon...
34 KB (4,028 words) - 12:46, 29 April 2024
Lansquenet (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Lansquenet is played in the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. Lanquenet is played by the protagonist in the 2022 video game Pentiment...
5 KB (708 words) - 11:06, 28 April 2024
Varney Kennedy, "Phèdre: The Making of the Anti-Hero."". Retrieved 2016-01-15. "W. M. Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844)". Victorianweb.org...
152 KB (5,830 words) - 18:27, 3 May 2024
Stanley Kubrick (redirect from Early life of Stanley Kubrick)
Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a picaresque novel about the adventures of an 18th-century Irish rogue and social climber. John Calley of Warner Bros...
174 KB (21,217 words) - 08:35, 16 May 2024
fictionalized by Thackeray in The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Augusta and Frederick I of Württemberg had four children: Prince William of Württemberg (1781–1864)...
14 KB (1,607 words) - 08:51, 15 April 2024
Faro (banking game) (redirect from Bucking the Tiger)
novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, the main character runs a crooked faro bank, alternatively to his great fortune or ruin. In its film adaptation, Barry Lyndon...
24 KB (3,468 words) - 08:50, 9 April 2024
Roger Lyndon (1917–1988), American mathematician Barry Lyndon, protagonist of the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon and its film adaptation Barry Lyndon Lyndon...
4 KB (463 words) - 16:26, 6 May 2024
Wendy Moore (category Historians of Europe)
after their separation, is said to have inspired Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The Washington Post columnist Jonathan Yardley stated that Moore...
11 KB (1,093 words) - 05:02, 4 April 2024
duel is not in the original novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. In the novel Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K...
78 KB (11,123 words) - 08:04, 5 March 2024
Thackeray heard Bowes's life story from the Countess's grandson, John Bowes, and used it in his novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon. After 1792, Mary lived quietly...
17 KB (2,367 words) - 18:27, 11 March 2024
Fleet Prison (redirect from Liberty of the Fleet)
along with him." In The Luck of Barry Lyndon, Lyndon spends the last nineteen years of his life in Fleet Prison. Near the end of Pierce Egan's 1821 story...
18 KB (2,095 words) - 09:50, 1 March 2024
Fletcher is also the first African-American to win in any writing category. Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight) are the first African-American...
115 KB (1,819 words) - 17:16, 16 May 2024
Daniel Lambert (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Barry Lyndon to refer to the fat servant Tim. As time progressed, "Daniel Lambert" came to mean anything exceptionally large; Herbert Spencer's The Study...
49 KB (6,304 words) - 19:40, 4 May 2024
for the Confessions series of novels and films which he wrote as Timothy Lea. Under his own name, he adapted two James Bond novels for the screen: The Spy...
20 KB (1,937 words) - 00:57, 8 December 2023
1844 in literature (category Years of the 19th century in literature)
Mysteries of London Eugène Sue – The Wandering Jew (Le Juif Errant) William Makepeace Thackeray – The Luck of Barry Lyndon Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna – The Wrongs...
15 KB (1,398 words) - 11:18, 1 March 2024
Samuel Foote (redirect from The Grand Panjandrum)
The Capuchin. In William Makepeace Thackeray's 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was later published as Barry Lyndon; The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon...
29 KB (3,652 words) - 16:20, 16 May 2024
Michael Hordern (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
Hordern narrated Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick's filmed adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The critic John Riley...
90 KB (11,753 words) - 23:03, 26 April 2024
rising) The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Sir Walter Scott (1730s Scotland and England) Waverley by Sir Walter Scott (1745 Jacobite rising) The Luck of Barry Lyndon...
60 KB (7,021 words) - 09:16, 8 February 2024
Eliza Stephens (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
of the anti-hero in The Luck of Barry Lyndon. He was later described as a "schemer" who had come to London with the purpose to seduce and marry the wealthy...
73 KB (8,153 words) - 13:49, 11 December 2023