Regarded by Dickens at one time as a dangerous rival, Lever and his works have sadly suffered obscurity in recent times, though he was one of the most promising novelists of the Victorian era. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Charles Lever, with hundreds of illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Lever's life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 29 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the novels were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Almost ALL of the novels are fully illustrated with their original artwork, including the famous HARRY LORREQUER * Hundreds of illustrations by Phiz, Dickensí famous illustrator * Includes Lever's non-fiction satires * Special criticism section, with two essays evaluating Leverís contribution to literature * Features the detailed biography by Edmund Downey - discover Lever's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels THE CONFESSIONS OF HARRY LORREQUER DIARY AND NOTES OF HORACE TEMPLETON, ESQ. CHARLES OíMALLEY: THE IRISH DRAGOON OUR MESS: JACK HINTON, THE GUARDSMAN OUR MESS: TOM BURKE OF ìOURSî ARTHUR OíLEARY ST. PATRICKíS EVE THE OíDONOGHUE THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE THE MARTINS OF CRO-MARTIN THE CONFESSIONS OF CON CREGAN ROLAND CASHEL THE DALTONS MAURICE TIERNAY, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE THE DODD FAMILY ABROAD SIR JASPER CAREW. HIS LIFE AND EXPERIENCE THE FORTUNES OF GLENCORE DAVENPORT DUNN ONE OF THEM A DAYíS RIDE BARRINGTON LUTTREL OF ARRAN A RENT IN THE CLOUD TONY BUTLER SIR BROOK FOSSBROOKE THE BRAMLEIGHS OF BISHOPíS FOLLY THAT BOY OF NORCOTTíS LORD KILGOBBIN GERALD FITZGERALD THE CHEVALIER The Shorter Fiction PAUL GOSSLETTíS CONFESSIONS IN LOVE, LAW, AND THE CIVIL SERVICE The Non-Fiction NUTS AND NUTCRACKERS TALES OF THE TRAINS CORNELIUS OíDOWD UPON MEN AND WOMEN AND OTHER THINGS IN GENERAL The Criticism LEVER by William Ernest Henley CHARLES LEVER: HIS BOOKS, ADVENTURES AND MISFORTUNES by Andrew Lang The Biography CHARLES LEVER, HIS LIFE IN HIS LETTERS by Edmund Downey Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

This volume places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding Victorian print world and tells the story of his career against a background of options available to him. The collection describes a world animated by outpourings of print materials: books, serials, newspapers, periodicals, libraries, paintings and prints, parodies and plagiarisms, censorship, advertising, as well as theatre and other entertainment, and celebrity. It also shows this period as driven by a growing and more literate population, and undergirded by a general conviction that writing was a crucial component of governance and civic culture. The extensive introduction and selected articles anchor Dickens's attempts to establish better conditions for writers regarding copyright protection, pay, status, recognition, and effectiveness in altering public policy. They speak about Dickens's life as playwright, journalist, novelist, editor, magazine publisher, theatrical producer, actor, lecturer, reader of his own works, supporter of charities for impoverished authors and fallen women, exponent of a morality of Christian compassion and domestic affections sometimes put into question by his own actions, proponent and critic of British nationalism, and champion of education for all. This selection of essays and articles from previously published accounts by internationally renowned scholars is of interest to all students and professionals who are fascinated by the composition, manufacture, finance, formats, pictorializations, sales, advertising and influence of Dickens's writing.

This volume presents 1,592 letters, 668 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1850 to 1852. This was a time of great activity for Dickens, who completed the serial publication of David Copperfield, began work on Bleak House, successfully established the weekly Household Words (in which his own serial A Child's History of England appeared), and wrote about 100 articles and stories for the journal, including many uncollected pieces. In April 1851 he and Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton founded the Guild of Literature and Art, a scheme to help writers and artists. He also suffered a number of personal blows: the deaths of his father, his baby daughter Dora, and two of his close friends, Richard Watson and Alfred D'Orsay; there was also anxiety over the illness of his wife Catherine.

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 book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland’s work in various fields, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary puzzles. With contributions from over twenty-five distinguished critics, literary journalists and scholars, this book goes beyond merely describing Sutherland’s work. The essayists pay homage to Sutherland while also staking their own critical/scholarly claims. From investigating the publishing dimension, Victorians major and minor, the complexities of Dickens and George Eliot, the “archeology” of Pride and Prejudice to examining the implications of Shakespearean souvenirs, literary puzzles, and Non-Victorians, the essays offer fresh dimensions to Sutherland’s rich career as a professor, critic, and journalist.