He primarily worked for Fraser's Magazine, a sharp-witted and sharp-tongued conservative publication, for which he produced art criticism, short fictional sketches, and two longer fictional works, Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon.

Thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, writing papers with a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts like Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair and the title characters of The Luck of Barry Lyndon and Catherine.

In The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a novel serialised in Fraser's in 1844, Thackeray explored the situation of an outsider trying to achieve status in high society, a theme which he developed more successfully in Vanity Fair with the character of Becky Sharp, the artist's daughter who rises nearly to the heights by manipulating the other characters.

* The Luck of Barry Lyndon ( 1844 ), filmed as Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick – ISBN 0-19-283628-5

Another novel with elements of the picaresque is the English The Luck of Barry Lyndon ( 1844 ).

William Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon made similar use of an unreliable first-person narrator and footnotes, with Thackeray using them to cast doubt on the protagonist's version of events.

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In The Luck of Barry Lyndon Thackeray's protagonist claims Foote as a friend.

* In The Luck of Barry Lyndon, Lyndon spends the last nineteen years of his life in Fleet Prison.

Barry recreated the role of Bat Masterson in an episode of the television series Guns of Paradise ( 1990 ), alongside Hugh O ' Brian as Wyatt Earp, and again in 1991 in The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, also with O ' Brian as Earp, as well as Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick and Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie.

William Makepeace Thackeray published The Luck of Barry Lyndon.

O ' Brian recreated his Wyatt Earp role for three 1990s projects, Guns of Paradise ( 1990 ) and The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw ( 1991 ) with fellow actor Gene Barry doing likewise as lawman Bat Masterson for each, as well as independent film Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone ( 1994 ).

In 1990, Barry recreated the role of Bat Masterson for two episodes of Guns of Paradise alongside Hugh O ' Brian as Wyatt Earp and the following year in The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, also with O ' Brian as Earp.

O ' Brian recreated the role of Earp in two episodes of the television series Guns of Paradise ( 1990 ), alongside Gene Barry as Bat Masterson, and again in 1991 in The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, also with Barry as Masterson.

The cinema featured in " The Passion of St Tibulus " was the Ormonde Cinema, Greystones, County Wicklow and " The Field ", the location for Funland in " Good Luck, Father Ted ", is in Portrane, North County Dublin.

In some quarters, especially among business people and traders, she is looked upon as a Goddess of Luck and Fortune.

The other men include hotheaded, inexperienced Chico ( Horst Buchholz ); Chris's friend Harry Luck ( Brad Dexter ) who believes Chris is seeking treasure ; the drifter Vin ( Steve McQueen ), who has gone broke after a round of gambling ; Bernardo O ' Reilly ( Charles Bronson ), a gunfighter of Irish-Mexican heritage ; cowpuncher Britt ( James Coburn ); and an on-the-run gunman Lee ( Robert Vaughn ), who is in the midst of a crisis of confidence.

Fighting Fantasy books typically feature a system whereby the protagonist is randomly assigned scores in three statistics ( named Skill, Stamina, and Luck ) which, in conjunction with the player rolling a six-sided die, are used to resolve combats and test the protagonist's success in certain situations.

Although the novel's fantasy elements ( voodoo and black magic, tarot readings and precognition, ghosts and mysticism ) are secondary to the brutal murder that is the focus of the plot, it is set in the same milieu as Asprin's Griffen McCandles novels ( Dragons series ), Dragons Luck and Dragons Wild.

The non-Chinese origin of the fortune cookie is humorously illustrated in Amy Tan's 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club, in which a pair of immigrant women from China find jobs at a fortune cookie factory in America.

Press Your Luck is an American television daytime game show created by Bill Carruthers and Jan McCormack.

The spaghetti western Four of the Apocalypse is based on " The Outcasts of Poker Flat " and " The Luck of Roaring Camp ".

The Major's first appearance is at the starting line, meeting each Walker, passing out their respective numbers, and starting the race quietly with his signature phrase: " Luck to all ".

The important 13th century glass beaker known as the Luck of Edenhall is also displayed in these galleries.

Luck plays a role, as players draw tiles from a bag, but it is seldom decisive.

* False Discoveries in Mutual Fund Performance: Measuring Luck in Estimated Alphas Evidence that stock selection is not a viable investing strategy.

Mecano also recorded many of their songs in Italian, such as: Figlio Della Luna ( Hijo De La Luna ), Croce Di Lame de Navajas (" Cross of Knives "), Un Anno Di Più Año Más (" One More Year ( is gone )"), Uno Di Quegli Amanti Amantes (" The Lovers "), Per Lei Contro Di Lei Contra Mujer, Il Cinema Cine, Vado A Nuova York Hay Marcha En Nueva York (" Though Luck in New York "), Fermati A Madrid En Madrid (" Stay in Madrid "), Mi Costa Tanto di Scordarti Cuesta Tanto Olvidarte, Responso Positivo Fallo Positivo (" Positive Sentence "), Anna e Miguel Muerta (" Still Life "), Una Rosa e Una Rosa Rosa es Una Rosa (" A Rose is a Rose "), Tu (" You ") ( Italian version ), " Dalai Lama " ( Italian version ), Il 7 Di Settembre 7 De Septiembre and " La Forza Del Destino " Fuerza del Destino.

He is best known for The Joy Luck Club ( 1993 ), Maid in Manhattan ( 2002 ), and the independent features Smoke ( 1995 ) and Anywhere but Here ( 1999 ).

The screenplay by Laird Doyle is based on his story Hard Luck Dame.

Luck or chance is fortune ( whether bad or good ) which occurs beyond one's control, without regard to one's will, intention, or desired result.

Luck is interpreted and understood in many different ways.

Luck is consistent with random walk probability theory.

Luck is a form of superstition which is interpreted differently by different individuals.

Stead's Letty Fox: Her Luck, often regarded as an equally fine novel, was officially banned in Australia for several years because it was considered amoral and salacious.

Since the 1990s, Schell has appeared in many German language made-for-TV films, such as the 2003 film Alles Glück dieser Erde ( All the Luck in the World ) opposite Uschi Glas and in the television miniseries The Return of the Dancing Master ( 2004 ), which was based on Henning Mankell's novel.

Other notable Asian-American ( but not immigrant ) novelists include Amy Tan, best known for her novel, The Joy Luck Club ( 1989 ), tracing the lives of four immigrant families brought together by the game of Mahjong, and Korean American novelist Chang-Rae Lee, who has published Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft.

* Guilin was mentioned in the novel The Joy Luck Club as the original home of Suyuan Woo, the mother of the primary narrator of the story, Jing-mei Woo.

During this time, she wrote her first book — Ralestone Luck, which was eventually published as her second novel in 1938, the first being The Prince Commands in 1934.

* The legend of Lady Chang-O plays a prominent role in Amy Tan's children's book, The Moon Lady, retold from her more adult novel The Joy Luck Club.

His first novel, Omensetter's Luck, about life in a small town in Ohio in the 1890s, was published in 1966.

In 1959 he was awarded the Longview Foundation Prize for Fiction for his story " The Triumph of Israbestis Tott " ( a story later included as the first third of his novel Omensetter's Luck ).

* It's Not Luck ( novel )

The events of the novel are a " game " between the Discworld gods Fate and The Lady ( Luck ) with the Discworld as their game board.

The novel ends with Kochanski and Lister, stranded on an idyllic world in an unknown parallel universe, attempting to start a family with help from the Luck virus.

Emilo Haversack, a kender from Krynn, aided the Forgotten Realms priest Joel of Finder in a quest, the story of which was told in the novel Tymora's Luck, authored by Jeff Grubb and Kate Novak.

The Joy Luck Club ( 1989 ) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan.

The stories told in this novel revolve around the Joy Luck Club women and their daughters.

: As Suyuan dies before the novel begins, her history is told by Jing-mei, based on her knowledge of her mother's stories, anecdotes from her father, and what the other members of the Joy Luck Club tell her.

At the beginning of the novel, June is chosen to replace her mother's seat in the Joy Luck Club after her mother's death.

Her first Nightrunner novel, Luck in the Shadows, was a Locus Magazine Editor's Pick for Best First Novel and a finalist for the Compton Crook Award.

Supporting roles in China Cry and New Jack City were to follow, and Wong found himself working with Wayne Wang again when he was cast in a role in the film adaptation of Amy Tan's best-selling novel The Joy Luck Club.

* John Maher's novel The Luck Penny ( Brandon 2007 ) is set in Rathdowney, in 1849.

In 2010, she acted opposite Chinese actress Li Bingbing in the English-language film Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, based on Lisa See's bestselling novel of the same name, which was directed by Wayne Wang ( The Joy Luck Club ).

He appears in Bad Luck and Trouble and in the latest novel The Affair.