num_pages: 3
description: "First published in 1845, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's The Cock and Anchor is one of the most interesting historical novels written in Ireland in the nineteenth century. It is many a record of the mores and manners of early eighteenth-century Ireland, a story of love struggling against the prejudices of class and religion, a penetrating moral study of crime and punishment, an engaging thriller. But first of all it is a full-bodied, energetic, lively picture of Dublin - its palaces and its inns, its streets, its people, its way of life. Written in the early years of Le Fanu's career as a novelist, it provides an exciting introduction to the work of one of the most intriguing novelists of Victorian Ireland."--BOOK JACKET.
language: English
title: The Cock and Anchor
titlecomplete: The Cock and Anchor (The collected works of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
genres: Fiction, Classics, Gothic
ratings_count: 42
publisher: Arno Press