Charles James Lever (1806–1872)
Autor/a de Harry Lorrequer
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Charles James Lever
Irish Literature 12 exemplars
Con Cregan 7 exemplars
The Works of Charles Lever (v. 1): Harry Lorrequer, Tom Burke of "Ours." (with 24 illustrations) (1880) 6 exemplars
Diary and notes of Horace Templeton, Esq, late secretary of legation at - (Collection of British authors) 4 exemplars
The Works of Charles Lever (v. 2): The Knights of Gwynne, Davenport Dunn (with 30 illustrations) (1881) 3 exemplars
Tom Burke, part II 3 exemplars
The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly 2 exemplars
Con O'Kelly 2 exemplars
The Works of Charles Lever (v. 3): Charles O'Malley, Jack Hinton (with 26 illustrations) (1881) 2 exemplars
The Works of Charles Lever (v. 5): Luttrell of Arran, Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly (with illustrations) 2 exemplars
Jack Hinton, the guardsman Volume II 2 exemplars
The knight of Gwynne, part I 2 exemplars
The knight of Gwynne, part II 2 exemplars
Sir Jasper Carew 2 exemplars
Martins of Cro' Martin Vol. II 2 exemplars
Harry Lorrequer Volume II 2 exemplars
Harry Lorrequer Volume I 2 exemplars
Jack Hinton, the guardsman Volume 1 2 exemplars
De avonturen van Algernon Sydney Potts 1 exemplars
The Fortunes of Glencore Vol. II 1 exemplars
Maurice Tiernay: Soldier of Fortune 1 exemplars
Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day 1 exemplars
Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II 1 exemplars
Sire Brook Fossbroke Vol. I 1 exemplars
Barrinton Vol. I 1 exemplars
Roland Cashel Vol. I 1 exemplars
Luttrell of Arran Vol. I 1 exemplars
Martins of Cro' Martin Vol. I 1 exemplars
The Daltons Vol. I 1 exemplars
The Dodd Family Abroad Vol. I 1 exemplars
One of Them Vol. II 1 exemplars
The Daltons Vol. II 1 exemplars
Con Cregan's Legacy 1 exemplars
The Works of Charles Lever - Vol. II 1 exemplars
The Dodd Family Abroad Vol II 1 exemplars
Paul Gossletts confessions 1 exemplars
Davenport Dunn Vol. I 1 exemplars
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1806-08-31
- Data de defunció
- 1872-06-01
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Irish
- Lloc de naixement
- Dublin, Ireland
- Lloc de defunció
- Trieste, Italy
- Educació
- Trinity College, Dublin (BA, MA, LLD)
Louvain University (MD) - Professions
- physician
magazine editor
consul general
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 85
- També de
- 7
- Membres
- 328
- Popularitat
- #72,311
- Valoració
- 3.4
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 94
How has it aged? In a word, fair. If you were to update the scenes to the present day it would likely make for a popular movie - one man's search for love (and money) gallivanting through Europe derailed by numerous distractions upon his journey.
It's quite a rambling novel, presented as a memoir of an English military officer on detachment to Ireland, the plot is quite flimsy, basically a stream of events with a meandering course and not a great deal of direction. It didn't really contain much in the way of description of how things were back in the day in terms of the functioning of civilisation, although there are a few pistol duels and numerous presentations of the horse and carriage.
Overall, it was fair a little cumbersome at times, but interesting in others. It has quite small and closely spaced font so the 344 pages is more like 700 if it were to use a modern typeface, margins and spacing.… (més)