Charles James Lever (1806–1872)
Auteur de Harry Lorrequer
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Œuvres de Charles James Lever
Irish Literature 12 exemplaires
Con Cregan 7 exemplaires
The Works of Charles Lever (v. 1): Harry Lorrequer, Tom Burke of "Ours." (with 24 illustrations) (1880) 6 exemplaires
Diary and notes of Horace Templeton, Esq, late secretary of legation at - (Collection of British authors) 4 exemplaires
The Works of Charles Lever (v. 2): The Knights of Gwynne, Davenport Dunn (with 30 illustrations) (1881) 3 exemplaires
Tom Burke, part II 3 exemplaires
The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly 2 exemplaires
Con O'Kelly 2 exemplaires
The Works of Charles Lever (v. 3): Charles O'Malley, Jack Hinton (with 26 illustrations) (1881) 2 exemplaires
The Works of Charles Lever (v. 5): Luttrell of Arran, Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly (with illustrations) 2 exemplaires
Jack Hinton, the guardsman Volume II 2 exemplaires
The Works of Charles Lever (v. 4): The Dodd Family Abroad, The Confessions of Con Cregan (with illustrations) 2 exemplaires
The knight of Gwynne, part I 2 exemplaires
The knight of Gwynne, part II 2 exemplaires
Sir Jasper Carew 2 exemplaires
Martins of Cro' Martin Vol. II 2 exemplaires
Harry Lorrequer Volume II 2 exemplaires
Harry Lorrequer Volume I 2 exemplaires
Jack Hinton, the guardsman Volume 1 2 exemplaires
De avonturen van Algernon Sydney Potts 1 exemplaire
Irish Literature- The Selected Writings of Charles Lever in Ten Volumes - The Knight of Gwynne Volume 1, Part 1 1 exemplaire
The Fortunes of Glencore Vol. II 1 exemplaire
Maurice Tiernay: Soldier of Fortune 1 exemplaire
Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day 1 exemplaire
Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II 1 exemplaire
Sire Brook Fossbroke Vol. I 1 exemplaire
Barrinton Vol. I 1 exemplaire
Roland Cashel Vol. I 1 exemplaire
Luttrell of Arran Vol. I 1 exemplaire
Martins of Cro' Martin Vol. I 1 exemplaire
The Daltons Vol. I 1 exemplaire
The Dodd Family Abroad Vol. I 1 exemplaire
One of Them Vol. II 1 exemplaire
The Daltons Vol. II 1 exemplaire
Con Cregan's Legacy 1 exemplaire
The Works of Charles Lever - Vol. II 1 exemplaire
The Dodd Family Abroad Vol II 1 exemplaire
Paul Gossletts confessions 1 exemplaire
Davenport Dunn Vol. I 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1806-08-31
- Date de décès
- 1872-06-01
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Irish
- Lieu de naissance
- Dublin, Ireland
- Lieu du décès
- Trieste, Italy
- Études
- Trinity College, Dublin (BA, MA, LLD)
Louvain University (MD) - Professions
- physician
magazine editor
consul general
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 85
- Aussi par
- 7
- Membres
- 328
- Popularité
- #72,311
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 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.… (plus d'informations)