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Charles James Lever (1806–1872)

Autore di Harry Lorrequer

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Opere di Charles James Lever

Harry Lorrequer (1839) 40 copie
Charles O'Malley (1841) 39 copie
Tom Burke of "Ours" (1843) 11 copie
Lord Kilgobbin (1992) 8 copie
The fortunes of Glencore (2007) 7 copie
Con Cregan 7 copie
Roland Cashel (1849) 5 copie
The O'Donoghue (1858) 5 copie
Luttrell of Arran (1872) 5 copie
The Dodd Family Abroad (2009) 4 copie
St. Patrick's Eve (2011) 4 copie
Tom Burke, part I (1843) 4 copie
One of Them (1861) 2 copie
Sir Brook Fossbrooke (2001) 2 copie
Tony Butler (2013) 2 copie
Con O'Kelly 2 copie
Tales of The Trains (2015) 1 copia
The Knight of Gwynne (2015) 1 copia
Nuts And Nutcrackers (2016) 1 copia

Opere correlate

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

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1806-08-31
Data di morte
1872-06-01
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
Irish
Luogo di nascita
Dublin, Ireland
Luogo di morte
Trieste, Italy
Istruzione
Trinity College, Dublin (BA, MA, LLD)
Louvain University (MD)
Attività lavorative
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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85
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Utenti
328
Popolarità
#72,311
Voto
½ 3.4
Recensioni
2
ISBN
94

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