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Charles James Lever (1806–1872)

Autor von Harry Lorrequer

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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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