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Charles James Lever (1806–1872)

Auteur de Harry Lorrequer

85+ oeuvres 328 utilisateurs 2 critiques

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Œuvres de Charles James Lever

Harry Lorrequer (1839) 40 exemplaires
Charles O'Malley (1841) 39 exemplaires
Jack Hinton: The Guardsman (1873) 15 exemplaires
Irish Literature 12 exemplaires
Tom Burke of "Ours" (1843) 11 exemplaires
Charles O'Malley. Volume II (1872) 9 exemplaires
Davenport Dunn : a man of our day (1859) 9 exemplaires
Lord Kilgobbin (1992) 8 exemplaires
The fortunes of Glencore (2007) 7 exemplaires
Con Cregan 7 exemplaires
The Martins of Cro'Martin (1856) 7 exemplaires
Roland Cashel (1849) 5 exemplaires
The O'Donoghue (1858) 5 exemplaires
Luttrell of Arran (1872) 5 exemplaires
The Dodd Family Abroad (2009) 4 exemplaires
St. Patrick's Eve (2011) 4 exemplaires
Tom Burke, part I (1843) 4 exemplaires
The novels of Charles Lever (1894) 3 exemplaires
Tom Burke, part II 3 exemplaires
A Day's Ride: A Life's Romance (1860) 2 exemplaires
One of Them (1861) 2 exemplaires
Sir Brook Fossbrooke (2001) 2 exemplaires
Tony Butler (2013) 2 exemplaires
Con O'Kelly 2 exemplaires
Sir Jasper Carew 2 exemplaires
Tales of The Trains (2015) 1 exemplaire
The Knight of Gwynne (2015) 1 exemplaire
Nuts And Nutcrackers (2016) 1 exemplaire
The Martins of Cro' Martin: 1 (2018) 1 exemplaire
Barrinton Vol. I 1 exemplaire
Roland Cashel Vol. I 1 exemplaire
The Daltons Vol. I 1 exemplaire
One of Them Vol. II 1 exemplaire
The Daltons Vol. II 1 exemplaire
Con Cregan's Legacy 1 exemplaire
Davenport Dunn Vol. I 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (1997) — Contributeur — 419 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Contributeur — 153 exemplaires
The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories (1940) — Contributeur — 67 exemplaires
Great English Short Stories (1930) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
International Short Stories English (Volume 2) (1910) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Half-Hours with Great Novelists (1884) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Famous Stories of Five Centuries (1934) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires

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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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328
Popularité
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