Name: Barry Lyndon: (in Spanish)
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Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 9781544934952

Type

Physical Book

Author

William Makepeace Thackeray

Publisher

Createspace

Year

2017

Language

Spanish

Pages

198

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781544934952

Synopsis "Barry Lyndon: (in Spanish)"

La suerte de Barry Lyndon (originalmente The Luck of Barry Lyndon) es a la vez una autobiografía ficticia y una novela picaresca, histórica, satírica y de aventuras del escritor británico William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). La obra se basa en gran medida en la vida de un personaje real, el aventurero irlandés Andrew Robinson Stoney. Se publicó en once episodios sucesivos del Fraser's Magazine, de enero a diciembre de 1844 (a excepción de octubre), y fueron reeditados en Nueva York en 1852 por D. Appleton & Co. y en Londres por Bradbury & Evans en 1856, esta vez bajo el título de The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq., By Himself (Las memorias de Barry Lyndon, por él mismo),1 título elegido por el editor y que a Thackeray no le gustaba especialmente.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was a British novelist, known for his sharp social satire and portrayal of the aristocracy and middle class in Victorian England. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, but did not complete his education. After dabbling in journalism and illustration, he established himself as a writer with a style marked by humor and biting criticism of social hypocrisy.

Among his most notable works is Vanity Fair (1848), a social critique novel about ambition and hypocrisy in British society. He also wrote The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon (1844), which inspired Stanley Kubrick's film, and The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), a bildungsroman with autobiographical overtones. His literary legacy positions him as one of the great writers of the 19th century.

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