Download or read book Charles Lever written by Stephen Haddelsey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the peak of his career, Charles Lever (1806-1872) was one of the most successful novelists in the English language, and the only mid-nineteenth century Irish novelist to vie with Charles Dickens in popularity and earning potential. Yet, within three decades of his death, his works had sunk into uninterrupted obscurity.