Description
When the wife of Viscount Glencore absconded him because she has lost her love over her husband, he was left with his son in their Glencore castle. He wants revenge on her by impugning their marriage and declaring their son to be illegitimate. The birth rights of his son are disentangled away from him and upon learning this from his father, he runs off devastated and does not want to come back home. Viscount Glencore told his old friend, Upton, to be his son’s guardian who reluctantly agreed. However, the boy and his acquaintance Billy resided somewhere to finish their studies and live independently, but all his plans did not work out. Charles James Lever was born on the 31st of August 1806 and died on the 1st of June 1872. He was a novelist and raconteur from Ireland, Anthony Trollope said that his works were alike with the way he talks. Charles James was born in Amiens Street, Dublin. His father, James Lever, was an architect and builder, and was well-educated in private schools. His experiences at Trinity College in Dublin where he took up medicine, were elucidated as storylines in most of his books. The make-believe character Frank Webber in his story, Charles O’Mailey, was based on his fellow classmate, Robert Boyle, who became a priest. Both of them earned money from singing their own compositions in Dublin and made fun of each other, these are created into novels, O’Mailey, Con Cregan and Lord Kilgobbin. He wrote a number of novels based on his own adventures such as Arthur O’Leary and Roland Cashel. While he was in Canada, he went into the backwoods and befriended with a tribe of Native Americans but he returned right away because the place was too risky. His imaginary character, representing his life in the backwoods of Canada, Bagenal Daly, was made into another book, The Knight of Gwynne. He also wrote clever novels like Lorrequer and Tom Burke, all of his stories are wonderfully amusing.
Product ID: 9781776722433
Sku: QP-YEAD-1KDQ
