The Luck of Barry Lyndon
by William Makepeace Thackeray
“To reach the top of the world, he'll have to break every rule in the book.”
Follow the audacious Redmond Barry as he lies, cheats, and gambles his way from the battlefields of Europe to the heights of the English aristocracy. This biting satire exposes the vanity of the 18th-century elite through the eyes of a charmingly unscrupulous rogue who will stop at nothing to claim a fortune.
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