Talk:The Luck of Barry Lyndon

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Thackery's novel first appeared serialized in Frasier's Magazine in 1884 under the title "The Luck of Barry Lyndon." When it was later published as a novel it was re-titled The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. Written by Himself. Project Gutenberg has it on file http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/brryl10.txt as plain old Barry Lyndon, which is probably how it should be referenced here.68.118.61.219 09:35, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

"alcoholism-related illness"[edit]

That is rather vague. How does the novel describe it? Varlaam (talk) 02:49, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"he had lived nineteen years an inmate of the Fleet Prison, where the prison records state he died of delirium tremens." JohnHarris (talk) 12:42, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Title?[edit]

The work as first published in Frasier's Magazine was The Luck of Barry Lyndon, but when Thackeray revised the text and published it in book form, he retitled it The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon. (The Oxford World's Classic edition has a note on the text explaining these things.) It is not immediately obvious to me why the author's choice for the title of the novel as he finalized it should not be respected. --Tbanderson (talk) 20:38, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully in 2024 someone else can point this out as well. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 14:09, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]