Maurice Tiernay: The Soldier of Fortune

by Charles James Lever

This is a romantic and historical novel of England and Ireland by the 19th century Anglo-Irish novelist Charles Lever. Once compared favorably to Dickens and extremely popular in the 1840's and 1850's, Lever's reputation suffered increasing criticism in the late 19th century and he is not well known today, and is sometimes in fact referred to as "The Lost Victorian." A unique view of the Victorian age from the Anglo-Irish point of view.

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First published January 1, 1855

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.