The Cock and Anchor

“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.