{"product_id":"the-history-of-jack-connor-ian-campbell-ross-9781846823992","title":"The History of Jack Connor","description":"The History of Jack Connor (1752) is the only (and once very popular) novel of the Irish writer of Huguenot descent, William Chaigneau (1709-1781). An example of sentimental picaresque fiction in the manner of Alain-Rene Lesage's Gil Blas (1715-1747) and Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random (1748), the work also reveals Chaigneau's admiration for Henry Fielding's then-controversial Tom Jones (1749). The entertaining wanderings of Jack Connor take him from his birth and childhood in an Ireland described in unusual detail - through London, Paris, Flanders, and Spain - before returning him to the Co. Limerick of his birth. Describing the novel as a 'truly moral tale, ' the London Monthly Review (1747) acknowledged the justice of the author's 'smart reprisals upon the English, for their national and vulgar prejudice against their brethren of Ireland.' (Series: Early Irish Fiction, c.1680-1820)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian Campbell Ross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1846823994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781846823992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Courts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.20d","brand":"Ian Campbell Ross","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48486178849023,"sku":"9781846823992","price":74.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_53fbb069-ea63-4053-9271-139d28f1af6e.jpg?v=1778054195","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-history-of-jack-connor-ian-campbell-ross-9781846823992","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}