Sir Jasper Carew Author:Charles James Lever Jasper is mixed up with the wild social life and turbulent politics of Dublin in the early days of the Irish Parliament. 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 suff... more »ered 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.« less