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Charles James Lever (1806–1872)

Auteur van Harry Lorrequer

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Werken van Charles James Lever

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

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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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