Confessions of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas
1849
Confessions of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas
1849
A picaresque novel that follows Con Cregan from a humble Irish cabin to the glittering, treacherous streets of Dublin, where fortune favors the bold, the shameless, and the cleverly dishonest. Lever writes with a comic's timing and a satirist's eye, exposing the absurdities of class pretension while celebrating his rogue's gift for survival. Con is no hero. He's a charming scoundrel whose every scheme unfolds with delightful inevitability, especially when it all goes spectacularly wrong. Think Gil Blas meets Oscar Wilde's Irish ancestors: a novel that mocks the powerful, sympathizes with the poor, and never takes itself seriously. For readers who want adventure, humor, and a protagonist it's impossible not to love.
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