This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
When some years ago we took the liberty, in a volume of our so-called "Confessions," to introduce to our reader's acquaintance the gentleman whose name figures in the title page, we subjoined a brief notice, by himself, intimating the intention he en...
“The plot of this novel is based upon the outcome of a protracted lawsuit between the once-wealthy Anglo-Irish aristocrat Peter Barrington and the British East India Company. At stake is the inheritance of Barrington's granddaughter, Josephine,...
Towards the close of the last century there was a very remarkable man, Bishop of Down, in Ireland: a Liberal in politics, in an age when Liberalism lay close on the confines of disloyalty; splendidly hospitable, at a period when hospitality verged on...
Title: Charles O'Malley ... With illustrations by Phiz i.e. H. K. Browne].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries hol...
An eminent apothecary of my acquaintance once told me that at each increase to his family, he added ten per cent to the price of his drugs, and as his quiver was full of daughters, Blackdraught, when I knew him, was a more costly cordial than Curacoa...
“A wild ride through the 19th Century Irish countryside.” This is the first of Charles Lever’s rollicking military novels. It involves a dashing young British Army officer, who is transferred to Cork with his regiment. While t...
Title: The Daltons; or, Three Roads in Life. ... With illustrations by Phiz i.e. H. K. Browne.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest r...
It has been said that any man, no matter how small and insignificant the post he may have filled in life, who will faithfully record the events in which he has borne a share, even though incapable of himself deriving profit from the lessons he has le...
Title: Jack Hinton ... With illustrations by Phiz.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million ite...
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have ende...
Popular novel, first published in 1872. According to Wikipedia: "Charles James Lever (31 August, 1806 - 1 June, 1872) was an Irish novelist."...
"Title: Luttrell of Arran. ... With illustrations by ""Phiz"" i.e. H. K. Browne].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research librar...
If Providence, instead of a vagabond, had made me a justice of the peace, there is no species of penalty I would not have enforced against a class of offenders, upon whom it is the perverted taste of the day to bestow wealth, praise, honour, and repu...
What happens when you bring a looney Irishmen into the British Army? Even more interesting, what happens when that army turns him loose on the French? Set during the Peninsular War, this is the rollicking story of an Irish dragoon, Charles...
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Popular novel, first published in 1869. According to Wikipedia: "Charles James Lever (31 August, 1806 - 1 June, 1872) was an Irish novelist… His daughters, one of whom, Sydney, is believed to have been the real author of The Rent in a Cloud (1869)...
Title: Roland Cashel. With illustrations by Phiz i.e. H. K. Browne].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding o...
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
Classic Irish novel, first published in 1845. According to Wikipedia: "Charles James Lever (31 August, 1806 - 1 June, 1872) was an Irish novelist."...
Some years ago there was a trial in Dublin, which, partly because the parties in the cause were in a well-to-do condition of life, and partly because the case in some measure involved the interests of the two conflicting Churches, excited considerabl...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...