Charles Lever: New Evaluations
by Tony Bareham, Editor
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0389209643
- ISBN 13
- 9780389209645
- Seller
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Saint Charles, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Savage, MD: Barnes and Nobel Books, 1991. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. From the publisher:
"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."
This copy is near fine in blue paper-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. Ex-library, with typical library stamps and labels, but appears very little used, with no other marks or damage at all. The unclipped DJ is also excellent and protected in a mylar cover. BW.
"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."
This copy is near fine in blue paper-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. Ex-library, with typical library stamps and labels, but appears very little used, with no other marks or damage at all. The unclipped DJ is also excellent and protected in a mylar cover. BW.
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- Seller
- Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA) (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- B216
- Title
- Charles Lever: New Evaluations
- Author
- Tony Bareham, Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0389209643
- ISBN 13
- 9780389209645
- Publisher
- Barnes and Nobel Books
- Place of Publication
- Savage, MD
- Date Published
- 1991
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA)
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