| The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer by Charles James Lever, Fiction, Literary Contributor(s): Lever, Charles James (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592247989 ISBN-13: 9781592247981 Publisher: Borgo Press OUR PRICE: $44.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2002 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: On a splendid morning in the autumn of the year 1812 the Howard transport, with 400 of his Majesty's 4th Regiment, dropped anchor in the beautiful harbor of Cove. It was with a mingled sense of pain and pleasure that the soldiers gazed upon that peaceful little village, for they knew what lay ahead. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6" W x 9" (2.03 lbs) 524 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. . . . |
Contributor Bio(s): Lever, Charles James: - "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 roues, 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." |
