Jack Hinton, the guardsman

by Charles James Lever

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466 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1843

About the author

Charles James Lever was an Irish novelist.

He was educated in private schools and earned a degree in medicine in 1831 at Trinity College, Dublin.

He lived in the backwoods of Canada, Germany (Göttingen, Jena), Austria (Vienna), Belgium (Brussels) and Italy (Como, Florence, Spezia, Trieste), where he died of heart failure.

Reviews

[Rick Sanders · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lever is said to be very good at describing combat. According to some, Lever is to the Napoleonic wars as Crane is to the US Civil War. Contrarily, Harry Lorrequor (his first & most popular) includes no combat, and this one had very little.
This book has less comedy than HL, but more plot etc. I found it as fun to read and more satisfying.
As if in reply to readers who protested that HL mocked the Irish, in this book the hero/narrator pointedly prefers Ireland & the Irish to the English.