Word: lyndoning
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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Thackeray made most of his money out of his lectures. For a long time he found it impossible to "place" " Barry Lyndon," which he always declared to be his masterpiece, and which only began to be appreciated after his death, and the earlier numbers of "Vanity Fair" excited little attention. In the last years of his life Thackeray told a friend of mine that he had never made as much as L5000 by any book he had ever written...