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Charles James Lever (1806–1872)

Autor/a de Harry Lorrequer

85+ obres 328 Membres 2 Ressenyes

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Inclou aquests noms: Charles Lever, Charles James Lever

Obres de Charles James Lever

Harry Lorrequer (1839) 40 exemplars
Charles O'Malley (1841) 39 exemplars
Jack Hinton: The Guardsman (1873) 15 exemplars
Irish Literature 12 exemplars
Tom Burke of "Ours" (1843) 11 exemplars
Charles O'Malley. Volume II (1872) 9 exemplars
Lord Kilgobbin (1992) 8 exemplars
The fortunes of Glencore (2007) 7 exemplars
Con Cregan 7 exemplars
The Martins of Cro'Martin (1856) 7 exemplars
Roland Cashel (1849) 5 exemplars
The O'Donoghue (1858) 5 exemplars
Luttrell of Arran (1872) 5 exemplars
The Dodd Family Abroad (2009) 4 exemplars
St. Patrick's Eve (2011) 4 exemplars
Tom Burke, part I (1843) 4 exemplars
The novels of Charles Lever (1894) 3 exemplars
Tom Burke, part II 3 exemplars
A Day's Ride: A Life's Romance (1860) 2 exemplars
One of Them (1861) 2 exemplars
Sir Brook Fossbrooke (2001) 2 exemplars
Tony Butler (2013) 2 exemplars
Con O'Kelly 2 exemplars
Sir Jasper Carew 2 exemplars
Tales of The Trains (2015) 1 exemplars
The Knight of Gwynne (2015) 1 exemplars
Nuts And Nutcrackers (2016) 1 exemplars
The Martins of Cro' Martin: 1 (2018) 1 exemplars
Barrinton Vol. I 1 exemplars
The Daltons Vol. I 1 exemplars
One of Them Vol. II 1 exemplars
The Daltons Vol. II 1 exemplars
Con Cregan's Legacy 1 exemplars

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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (1997) — Col·laborador — 419 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Col·laborador — 152 exemplars
The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories (1940) — Col·laborador — 67 exemplars
Great English Short Stories (1930) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
International Short Stories English (Volume 2) (1910) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Half-Hours with Great Novelists (1884) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Famous Stories of Five Centuries (1934) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars

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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

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The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer was published in 1839 and I had the good fortune to read a William Curry first edition that was previously owned by Charles Kent, Vicar of Ludford (1807-1885), it was apparently quite the popular book back in the day.

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.
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HenriMoreaux | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Dec 10, 2019 |

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Membres
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ISBN
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