Charles Omalley The Irish Dragon Classic Reprint

Author : Charles Lever
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330904008
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Charles O'malley, the Irish Dragon (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Lever and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Charles O'malley, the Irish Dragon The success of Harry Lorrequer was the reason for writing Charles O'Malley. That I myself was in nowise prepared for the favor the public bestowed on my first attempt is easily enough understood. The ease with which I strung my stories together - and in reality the Confessions of Harry Lorrequer are little other than a note-book of absurd and laughable incidents - led me to believe that I could draw on this vein of composition without any limit whatever. I felt, or thought I felt, an inexhaustible store of fun and buoyancy within me, and I began to have a misty, half-confused impression that Englishmen generally labored under a sad-colored temperament, took depressing views of life, and were proportionately grateful to any one who would rally them, even passingly, out of their despondency, and give them a laugh without much trouble for going in search of it. When I set to work to write Charles O'Malley, I was, as I have ever been, very low with fortune, and the success of a new venture was pretty much as eventful to me as the turn of the right color at rouge et noir. At the same time I had then an amount of spring in my temperament, and a power of enjoying life, which I can honestly say I never found surpassed. The world had for me all the interest of an admirable comedy, in which the part allotted myself, if not a high or a foreground one, was eminently suited to my taste, and brought me, besides, sufficiently often on the stage to enable me to follow all the fortunes of the piece. Brussels, where I was then living, was adorned at the period by a most agreeable English society. Some leaders of the fashionable world of London had come there to refit and recruit, both in body and estate. There were several pleasant and a great number of pretty people among them; and, so far as I could judge, the fashionable dramas of Belgrave Square and its vicinity were being performed in the Rue Royale and the Boulevard de Waterloo with very considerable success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.