Charles Lever (1806-72)
Works
11 (of 35 to 40?) Volumes, Octavo
Little, Brown, Boston: 1894
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Works of Charles Lever
Boston: 1894
Boston: 1894
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1/1250 numbered sets. Octavo, crimson morocco and marbled boards, gilt lettering and small floral designs in spine compartment, t.e.g., untrimmed, each with full page reproductions of original illustration, printed on Japan vellum.
Anglo-Irish author Charles Lever was an extremely popular as well as a prolific author in the Mid 19th Century, producing 30 novels and five volumes of short stories and essays. At the time, he was compared favorably to Charles Dickens. However, by the early 20th Century, according to literary critic S.P. Haddelsey, his "easy-going, rollicking" novels had been essentially forgotten. In his recent book, Charles Lever, The Lost Victorian: A Critical Vindication (Oxford University Press: 2001), Haddelsey argues for a reappraisal of Lever's works, asserting that he made a significant contribution to Irish literature in English, capturing the "anxieties, the beliefs and the prejudices" of Anglo-Irish society in the Victorian era, as well as being a incisive social critic. Haddelsey asserts that in their loose, rambling structure, the books also capture the flavor of Irish oral storytelling. As Lever's books are out of print, these volumes present an unusual opportunity to become acquainted with his work.