The confessions of Harry Lorrequer,
by Charles Lever.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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New York, The Century Co., 1903.
- Summary
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A wild ride through the 19th Century Irish countryside." This is the first of Charles Lever's rollicking military novels. It involves a dashing young British Army officer, who is transferred to Cork with his regiment. While there, he undergoes what Lever calls "a mass of incongruous adventures"; or, to put it in the words of the hero of the story: "Such was our life in Cork-dining, drinking, dancing, riding steeplechases, pigeon shooting, and tandem driving -- filling up any little interval that was found to exist between a late breakfast, and the time to dress for dinner..." The book is filled with hilarious stories and anecdotes, and all sorts of interesting Irish characters-including some penetrating sketches of Catholic clerical life. In the later part of the book, the story ventures to Europe where we meet Arthur O'Leary, who becomes a main character in a later volume.
- Note
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Series title also at head of t-p.
- Physical Description
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xix, 494 p.
front., 5 pl.
21 cm.
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