Author: Charles LeverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly
Author: Charles LeverCharles Lever
Author: Tony BarehamPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389209645
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
These essays comprise the first extensive reappraisal of Charles Lever for over 50 years. Once regarded as the equal of Dickens, Trollope and Thackeray, Lever's public turned their backs on him when he changed style and genre after making his name with comic military tales. He never captured his early popularity, but his later novels in fact manifest a much more serious and crafted approach to fiction and richly deserve revival. Lever's own turbulent and often unhappy life of social and cultural exile in Europe provides the hidden theme of many of his better novels. Continental and Irish settings and preoccupations are juxtaposed, making his contribution to the Anglo-Irish novel an unusual and challenging one. Lever is a shrewd observer of characteróparticularly of female character; few of his better-remembered contemporaries write with more insight about women; old, young, rich, poor; loving, hating, dominating, subjected. His eye for place is acute; Scott is his model, but Lever's ability to correlate character with environment is finely developed. His political observations are shrewd and balanced.
The Two Chancellors: Prince Gortchakof and Prince Bismarck
Author: Julian KlaczkoPublisher: New York : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Works of William Shakespeare
Author: William ShakespeareThe Land of the Czar
Author: O. W. WahlPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The two chancellors, prince Gortchakof and prince Bismarck, tr. by mrs. Tait
Author: Juljan KlaczkoA Catalogue of Old and Rare Books Offered for Sale
Author: Pickering & ChattoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books
Author: Pickering & Chatto, firm, booksellers, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
First Editions of the Works of Esteemed Authors of the XIXth and XXth Centuries
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Author: Craik