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The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon by English author William Makepeace Thackeray is a book of literary fiction first published in book form in the UK in 1856.A celebrated historical, picaresque classic novel following the humorous adventures and social climbing escapades of its roguish eponymous protagonist.Excerpt?Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it. Ever since ours was a family (and that must be very NEAR Adam?s time, ? so old, noble, and illustrious are the Barrys, as everybody knows) women have played a mighty part with the destinies of our race.I presume that there is no gentleman in Europe that has not heard of the house of Barry of Barryogue, of the kingdom of Ireland, than which a more famous name is not to be found in Gwillim or D?Hozier; and though, as a man of the world, I have learned to despise heartily the claims of some PRETENDERS to high birth who have no more genealogy than the lacquey who