The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer - Hardcover
It was on a splendid morning in the autumn of the year 181-- that the Howard transport, with four hundred of his Majesty's 4--th Regt., dropped anchor in the beautiful harbor of Cove. It was with a mingled sense of pain and pleasure that we gazed upon that peaceful little village. The moody silence our thoughts had shed over us was soon broken: the preparations for disembarking had begun, shaking off the load that oppressed my heart, I descended the gangway. . . .
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About the Author:
Charles James Lever (1806 - 1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur. Anthony Trollope praised Lever's novels highly when he said that they were just like his conversation. He was a born raconteur and had in perfection that easy flow of light description which without tedium or hurry leads up to the point of the good stories of which in earlier days his supply seemed inexhaustible. With little respect for unity of action or conventional novel structure, his brightest books, such as Lorrequer, O'Malley and Tom Burke are in fact little more than recitals of scenes in the life of a particular "hero", unconnected by any continuous intrigue. The type of character he depicted is for the most part elementary. His women are mostly roués, romps or Xanthippes; his heroes have too much of the Pickle temper about them and fall an easy prey to the serious attacks of Poe or to the more playful gibes of Thackeray in Phil Fogarty or Bret Harte in Terence Deuville.
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- PublisherWildside Pr
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1592247989
- ISBN 13 9781592247981
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages524
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