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The hosts cited Thackeray's 1844 novel as a humorous way to introduce the complexity of the Seven Years' War, noting its convoluted origin and the difficulty of understanding it.
So wrote William Makepeace Thackeray in 1844, in his great novel The Luck of Barry Linden.
— Episode: 47. The Seven Years' War
Episode: 47. The Seven Years' War
The hosts cited Thackeray's 1844 novel as a humorous way to introduce the complexity of the Seven Years' War, noting its convoluted origin and the difficulty of understanding it.
So wrote William Makepeace Thackeray in 1844, in his great novel The Luck of Barry Linden.
its origin has always appeared to me to be so complicated and the book's written about it so amazingly hard to understand that I have seldom been much wiser at the end of a chapter than at the beginning and so shall not trouble my reader with any personal disquisitions concerning the matter.
